particles of light break down to half of their former selves. These results, published today in Physical Review Letters, send cracks through a foundational pillar of modern physics—the theory of light ...

One of these topics is the arrow of time, which Sean Carroll (Caltech physicist, not Sean Carroll, Madison biologist) discussed at AAAS. Briefly, time's a bit of an annoyance to physics.

Physics, the ever amazing scientific field that is also the occasional party-pooper of Pop culture, has found Bard’s Black Arrow to be awfully lacking when it comes to killing Dragons.

Scientists have finally located the long-sought missing half of the Universe's visible ... at the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics in UC Berkeley's Department of Physics, as well as ...