One of the most startling scientific discoveries of recent decades is that physics appears to be fine-tuned for life. This means that for life to be possible, certain numbers in physics had to fall ...

Pick up any science fiction book from the 1960s, and you’ll find parallel dimensions explained through magic portals or mysterious machines that work “just because.” Today’s readers want stories that ...

It's easy to envisage other universes, governed by slightly different laws of physics, in which no intelligent life, nor indeed any kind of organized complex systems, could arise. Should we therefore ...

The discovery of the Higgs boson was a landmark in the history of physics. It explained something fundamental: how elementary particles that have mass get their masses. But it also marked something no ...

Look out at the Universe all you want, with arbitrarily powerful technology, and you'll never find an edge. Space goes on as far as we can see, and everywhere we look we see the same things: matter ...

While the idea remains hotly debated, some of the brightest minds in contemporary physics take very seriously the possibility that our universe is just one among many. How did this notion of multiple ...