PLANCK 2026 brought more than 250 theorists to CERN to confront puzzles of scale, from the mass of dark matter to the ...

While various studies have hinted at the existence of dark matter, its nature, composition and underlying physics remain poorly understood. In recent years, physicists have been theorizing about and ...

The Planck scale is where general relativity and quantum mechanics should clash. It is the realm of the unfeasibly energetic and the unimaginably tiny. It is where the laws of nature are expected to ...

The economy has been sputtering for years; it sure could use a boost. Planck-scale physics is the coming thing in basic science. How big a boost could the economy get from Planck-scale physics? A new ...

Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum physics are expected to merge at the Planck-scale of extremely high energies and on very short distances. Now scientists have proposed a new quantum experiment ...

ON A human scale, an atom is inconceivably small. But size is relative. On the Planck scale—the smallest that physical theory recognises—atoms are huge. At this scale, named after Max Planck, the ...