At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

Humanity has achieved remarkable feats, yet 95% of the universe remains invisible and unexplained. Our theories, general ...

A recent experiment at Fermilab has delivered intriguing results that challenge standard predictions, adding fuel to the ...

The scientists, from Spain and Germany, say the current standard model of physics cannot explain everything we see in the universe ...

Kellogg Stelle was a professor of physics at Imperial College London for decades until his death last month. In 1977, he developed a particle theory of gravity that’s renormalizable, but the theory’s ...

In modern physics, the Higgs boson is famous for giving particles their mass. But a new study suggests an entirely different ...

Nine graduates from South Africa and one from Botswana have been chosen as the region’s next cohort of Rhodes Scholars, and ...

Raphael De Sousa (22) grew up in Cape Town, where he attended Milnerton High School and Parklands College. He graduated from ...

Researchers have adapted Bell’s theorem from quantum mechanics to help them predict financial crises before they happen.

The old computer science curriculum isn’t doing the job it should in preparing students for the modern realities of wrangling ...

Soil moisture is a key factor driving the Earth’s water and carbon cycles, but large-scale monitoring has long been hindered ...

Evidence suggests the universe’s expansion has started to slow, not accelerate. The results imply dark energy is weakening ...