Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs mechanism explained only part of the story. A new wave of theoretical work now ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in equations rather than explained from first principles. A new proposal argues that ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: An ongoing experiment called ...

Dark matter accounts for approximately 85 percent of the universe's mass, yet no instrument has ever caught a direct trace of it. Physicists know it exists because of its gravitational effect on ...

Scientists believe that there are more dimensions to our universe, but our limited senses are keeping us from noticing them. This also means that there could be hidden curvatures of space-time or ...

A "New Theory of Everything" aims to advance and improve our understanding of gravity beyond what we know from Einstein's Theory of Relativity. For years, scientists have tried to combine gravity with ...

String theory found its origins in an attempt to understand the nascent experiments revealing the strong nuclear force. Eventually another theory, one based on particles called quarks and force ...