Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin pictured atoms as tiny knots in an invisible medium called the ether. That picture turned out to be wrong, since atoms are built ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, perfectly described on cosmic scales yet refusing to mesh with the quantum rules that govern everything else. A growing camp ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Movies have a knack for taking really complicated ideas and making them seem, well, almost understandable. When it comes to ...