For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum theory—our two best bets on understanding the universe on a macroscopic and ...

The idea of wormholes isn’t new. They’ve long been theorized as shortcuts through space and time, frequently depicted in science fiction. What sets this research apart is its focus on wormholes as ...

AdS/CFT suggests that our three-dimensional universe can be modeled by a two-dimensional surface. AdS (Anti-de Sitter space) ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

The universe, which originated 14 billion years ago in the Big Bang, remains to evolve. Stars and galaxies form, age, and eventually die, with smaller galaxies combining into larger ones with time.

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of ...

Physicists have demonstrated with unprecedented accuracy that the speed of light remains constant. In 1887, a landmark physics experiment was carried out by American researchers Michelson and Morley.

Just as you probably avoid movies like Alive on a flight, the ISS crew likely skip these movies in space. The post The ISS ...

Twinkle Khanna aka Mrs Funnybones crafts satirical stories and funny fables when she is not running a design business, selling candles or running in circles around her small but rather odd family. She ...

Astronomers observed a white dwarf and subdwarf 4,000 light-years away, spiralling toward collision, testing Einstein's ...

What if the famous P vs NP problem isn’t just about algorithms but about the observers trying to solve them? Research ...