Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible ...

Physicists know that something unseen is sculpting the cosmos, outweighing ordinary matter by roughly a factor of five, yet every detector built so far has come up empty. One of the most audacious ...

A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, forming ...

Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...