"Dune" has long been a famous sci-fi franchise, and the movies have only made it more popular. Narratively, it's impressive, ...

At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak ...

Quantum ideas describe particles and fields in tiny packages, but general relativity paints gravity as smooth curves in space ...

Researchers have developed a new quantum theory of gravity which describes gravity in a way that's compatible with the Standard Model of particle physics, opening the door to an improved understanding ...

Research from Aalto University could bring together the four fundamental forces of nature under a singular framework ...

A unified theory of everything has long eluded scientists due to gravity being irreconcilable with the three other ...

The team behind the new study has been working with a material made of potassium, vanadium, and antimony (KV₃Sb₅), which is ...

Werner Heisenberg submitted a paper to Zeitschrift für Physik entitled ‘On quantum-theoretical reinterpretation of kinematic and mechanical relationships’, thus giving birth to quantum mechanics. In ...

Rosensweig, R. E., Nestor, J. W., and Timmins, R. S., Paper 5.14, British Institute of Chemical Engineers/American Institute of Chemical Engineers Joint Meeting ...

Carnegie Mellon University Professor Edda L. Fields-Black on Monday won a 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During ...

The gravity quantum field is calculated in flat spacetime. The curved classical metric is calculated using the expectation value of the gravity quantum field. Image: Mikko Partanen and Jukka Tulkki / ...

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