Researchers from the School of Physics at Wits University, working with collaborators from the Universitat Autònoma de ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

Candidate Name: Sreeja Purkait Degree : Master’s Defense Date: Friday, Dec. 12, 2025 Time : 3 to 5 p.m. Location :Olney Hall, Department of Physics Conference room Thesis/Dissertation Title: Design ...

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

There's a certain logic to how human civilization operates. Some say it's predetermined by physics, others point to ...

For more than a century, physicists have suspected that the familiar three dimensions of space might be only a small slice of ...

For more than a century, physicists have suspected that the familiar three dimensions of space and one of time might be only ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies suggest that dark matter might not be a particle hiding in ...

In 1919, physicist Theodor Kaluza hypothesized that extra dimensions might solve some outstanding problems in physics. And while we haven't found any evidence yet for anything outside our normal ...

You’re living in a three-dimensional world. We all are. You can go left, right, forward, backward, up, and down. Now, picture a being that can pop in and out of your reality as if pressing a button, ...