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

In 1919, British astronomers Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson organised an expedition to Príncipe, a forested fleck of land ...

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

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

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 ...

Time travel has long lived in the realm of science fiction, but a growing body of physics research now argues that journeys into the past might fit inside known laws of nature without tearing ...

Can we journey through time? From H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine to The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger and "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon, time travel has captured our imagination for ...

A new warp-drive study proposes a novel segmented design that brings hyper-fast space travel one step closer to becoming a ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...

Approaching a black hole unleashes extreme tidal forces, stretching and tearing apart matter, including planets like Earth, a ...