Might the mere fact of creating a time machine ensure its own elimination from history? That’s the disquieting suggestion of ...

Quantum physics just pulled off a rewind trick that sounds like sci-fi. Here’s what the experiment actually did—and why it ...

Ron Mallett, a physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, was just 10 years old when he lost his father to a sudden heart attack. This traumatic experience, along with ...

Johannes holds an MSci in Neuroscience from King’s College London, where he worked on projects involving Alzheimer’s disease and Fragile X syndrome. A physicist believes he may have solved the ...

In the moments before the Big Bang, our universe was a hot, dense, and extremely high-energy place. That all changed when the universe exploded 13.8 billion years ago. Rapid inflation divided a single ...

The concept of time travel has captivated readers and moviegoers for many decades now. But while people have been fascinated ...

Physicists have now seen waves “bounce” off a sudden change in time itself—a twist that flips their direction and shifts ...

Space — the final frontier. These are the words that introduce every episode of classic "Star Trek," the show that essentially popularized the concept of traveling the stars at the speed of light – or ...

Faster-than-light travel is impossible according to our current understanding of physics. Wormholes are theoretically possible but require unstable, exotic matter to stabilize. Generation ships are a ...