Science is the study of the material world. The material world works according to a series of physical laws. These laws seem to be universal throughout time. The laws also seem to apply everywhere ...

Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Potsdam, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a fundamental physical law that governs the seemingly chaotic motion of chromosomes ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or two to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the universe.

Some proponents of flat earth theory – the erroneous idea that Earth is flat instead of a globe – also claim that space isn't real, sometimes based on errant assumptions about vacuum chambers and ...