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

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

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if you analyze the ashes of the fire, the smoke and the flames to re-create ...

This means that, due to time dilation, you would age faster on Mars than on Earth. If you were to spend a whole 50 years on the Red Planet, you’d end up a whole 9 seconds older than if you had stayed ...

The artist’s fascination with subjects ranging from quantum theory to poetry reveals an intellect that moves freely between ...

Physicists tested light speed using cosmic gamma-ray bursts. Study confirms Einstein's prediction that all light colors travel at same speed.

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A single sewing needle is tiny enough to slip through fabric unnoticed, yet physics suggests that if it somehow struck Earth at light speed, the result would look less like a pinprick and more like a ...

When was the last time you felt that everything was running smoothly—that, over several months, life unfolded just as you ...

Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...