When we think creatively, produce novel ideas, or otherwise have “Eureka” moments, we may actually unlock access to a ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Why does our universe look the way it does? In particular, why do we only experience three ...

In Edwin's Abbot's classic book Flatland, the narrator, a Square, is a gentlemen who lives in Flatland, a world having only two dimensions, and everyone is a flat shape or line segment. Near the ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists has come up with a new explanation for why space occupies three dimensions. The theory hinges upon flux tubes, which are comprised of quarks held together by gluons ...

Physicists probing the origins of the cosmos hope that next year they will turn up the first proofs of the existence of concepts long dear to science-fiction writers such as hidden worlds and extra ...

This could be the way the world ends. First, a pair of cosmic protons smash together at unimaginable speeds. The tremendous energy of their crash would create a tiny, ephemeral black hole, so small ...

Astronomers have recently identified a cosmic structure so vast that it challenges our understanding of the universe’s scale.