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Scientists announced today (March 17) that they had found the first direct evidence of the dramatic expansion that created the known unive...

Albert Einstein at Mount Wilson Observatory in 1931, with Edwin Hubble (centre) and Walter Adams. A manuscript that lay unnoticed by sci...

Nobel laureate Peter Higgs could have been one of the architects of physics' biggest theory - but missed out because of an early night...

The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the universe had existed forever. The reason humanity was not more developed, he believed, ...

Peter Higgs , the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson , believes no university would employ him in today's academic...

Philip Warren Anderson Shivaji Sondhi

In the early days of quantum physics, in an attempt to explain the wavelike behavior of quantum particles, the French physicist Louis de...