Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

Olalla, from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Seville, has described the direct link between ...

Einstein’s brain wasn’t larger — it was built differently. The region responsible for spatial reasoning was wider than normal ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

The idea that a hidden fourth dimension could be woven into everyday reality is no longer just a science‑fiction trope.

Last year, a UCLA-led team accomplished something scientists have been trying to do for 50 years. They made radioactive thorium nuclei absorb and ...

Clocks tick faster on Mars than they do on Earth, in part because Mars experiences less gravitational pull from the Sun. Now scientists have calculated just how much faster -- 477 microseconds, on ...

Scientists have made a major step towards building the world’s first practical nuclear clock.In a study published today in Nature, the team demonstrate a completely new way of probing the tiny ...