Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earliest moments of cosmic history. Their work suggests ...

What governs the speed at which raindrops fall, sediment settles in river estuaries, and matter is ejected during a supernova? These questions circle around one, deceitfully simple factor: the rate at ...

The collective gravity of countless neutrinos gently irons out the wrinkles in the cosmic web, preventing matter from ...

Time has an arrow: It only ever seems to move in one direction. The future is always unknown to us, while the past forever remains locked and inaccessible. And yet, the vast majority of the laws of ...

When a black hole–neutron star pair merges, it's assumed to do so while settling into a perfect circular orbit. But according to a recent study, there is now strong evidence for the first time that ...

Will the reality live up to the hype? by Jonathan Ruane, Andrew McAfee and William D. Oliver In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor introduced a quantum-computing algorithm that could reduce the time it ...