Gilles Brassard was attending a computer science meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the fall of 1979, when he decided to ...

Some black holes could have tamer origins—in the folds of unusual "spacetime crystals" that researchers finally managed to ...

What if wormholes were never cosmic tunnels at all? New research suggests Einstein and Rosen’s famous “bridge” may actually reveal something even stranger: time itself could flow in two directions at ...

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts ...

Black holes are regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, even light, can escape. Einstein's theory of ...

A team from Vienna and Frankfurt has found a formula describing a strange phenomenon: Space and time can form a kind of ...

History often highlights powerful leaders and major events, but close friendships have shaped many of the turning points people still study today. Trusted allies frequently provided emotional support, ...

String theory attempts to unify general relativity and quantum theory. Popular in the 1990s, string theory fell out of favor ...

Physicists searching for a better understanding of quantum gravity stumbled upon something unexpected: the defining ...

In a surprising paper from 2021, scientists Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire suggested that they’d nailed down a physical ...

Grothendieck is revered in the world of math; outside of it, he’s known for his unusual life, if he’s known at all. But what ...

Scientists propose a new atomic clock experiment that could reveal whether time itself follows the strange rules of quantum ...