Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earliest moments of cosmic history. Their work suggests ...
A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but because a structure has ...
In 1916, only a year after Albert Einstein had published his general theory of relativity, Karl Schwarzschild used mathematical calculations to show this: If sufficient mass could be placed into an ...
After the passing of physicist Anthony Leggett, columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan remembers their personal connection with ...
Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...
Many-body physics is the study of large ensembles of interacting particles and their collective behaviour. These systems are ...
From an image of a detector hunting for signs of dark matter to a picture of a deep-sea neutrino telescope studying ...