Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler ...

He was a co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for finding the background radiation that finally pinned down the Big ...

Smoot is best known for his Nobel prize winning research that confirmed the Big Bang Theory, leading a team that developed ...

A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at various ...

In The Big Bang Theory, social awkwardness is celebrated rather than shunned. The characters wear their quirks like badges ...

Emma Chapman reviews Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper Before the bang That the universe evolved from a "hot Big Bang" is not in question, ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to two Americans whose findings lend support to the big-bang scenario of the universe's origins. The winners are John Mather, 60, who works at NASA's Goddard ...

Our understanding of the universe, as advanced as it is, remains riddled with paradoxes and huge question marks. Physicists have come up with some pretty heady ideas to explain them — we’ll get to ...

Thanks to the lovable geeks on TV’s “The Big Bang Theory,” an Escondido inventor’s decades-old toy is now spinning with new life. On the popular show’s Feb. 16 episode, astrophysicist Raj tried to ...

The Big Bang Theory is a sitcom that combines science with humor, making it a unique watch. The show features a group of ...

In some ways, the actors who play Sheldon and Penny on Big Bang Theory share something with their characters: love. That was ...