Jim Al-Khalili receives funding for his research from various bodies: UK funding agencies (EPSRC, STFC), trusts and charities (Leverhulme Trust, John Templeton Foundation). These funds are used to pay ...

Stephen Wolfram, inventor of the Wolfram computational language and the Mathematica software, announced that he may have found a path to the holy grail of physics: A fundamental theory of everything.

Soon after it was released a few short years ago, I began to delve into Steven Wolfram's new book, "A Fundamental Theory of Physics." I have followed his work since the early '90s when I first used ...

A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces—is within reach. Bringing gravity into the fold has been the ...

Over the short span of just 300 years, since the invention of modern physics, we have gained a deeper understanding of how our universe works on both small and large scales. Yet, physics is still very ...

In a nutshell: Launching the project in the midst of a global pandemic may seem almost "disrespectful" (his words, not mine), but according to Wolfram, he also thought it could serve as an ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

Gravity is supposed to be the most familiar force in nature, yet at the deepest level it remains the least understood. A bold ...