The latest generation of astronomy algorithms is not just cataloguing stars and galaxies, it is learning the hidden rules ...

For more than a century, physicists have suspected that the familiar three dimensions of space might be only a small slice of reality. The idea that the universe could be hiding several additional ...

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Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.

Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they ...

One of the weirdest theories in cosmology is the holographic principle, the idea that our universe is a three-dimensional image projected off a two-dimensional surface — the idea that, yes, we are ...

Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That’s the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that UB physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010. They suggested that ...