Physicists from Imperial College London have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in quantum physics by reimagining the classic double-slit experiment—this time in the dimension of time. Led by ...

Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of what the universe looked like in the moments before it rapidly changed ...

Vanderbilt University physicist Lorenzo Gavassino isn't so sure this is as big an obstacle as time-traveler pessimists have ...

The grandfather paradox is just one of the thorny logical problems that arise with the concept of time travel. But one physicist says he has resolved them.

How can the latest technology, such as solar cells, be improved? An international research team led by the University of ...

A study by cognitive neuroscientists at SISSA investigated how the human brain processes space and time, uncovering that ...

Scientists used the most massive fundamental particles to break special relativity, but even that didn’t work.

How can the latest technology, such as solar cells, be improved? An international research team is helping to find answers to questions like this with a new technique. For the first time, the ...

Sandoval/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Permanent distortions in space–time caused by the passage of gravitational ... 0 Hz where the final memory amplitude is achieved,” he tells Physics World. The ...

Scientists have found an elusive third form of magnetism that could help solve a longstanding puzzle about superconductors.

Space physics is the study of the natural phenomenon that occur in our solar system. Specifically, the sun, the particles and radiation it creates and how these affect the planets. This includes ...