Time travel has long lived in the realm of science fiction, but a prominent futurist now argues that humans could effectively ...

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SN Ares might be the most exciting one. The star exploded when the universe was about one-third of its current age.

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Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the speed of light and there ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

A new chip-based quantum memory uses nanoprinted “light cages” to trap light inside atomic vapor, enabling fast, reliable ...

Physicist Ralf Schützhold proposes using powerful laser interferometers to exchange energy with gravitational waves, ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

There’s a reason that weaving was among humankind’s first technologies. Spacetime is constantly weaving The Eternal Now, the ...