Quantum physics just pulled off a rewind trick that sounds like sci-fi. Here’s what the experiment actually did—and why it ...

Time travel has long been a staple of science fiction, capturing the imaginations of storytellers and scientists alike. Recent breakthroughs in mathematical modeling might bring this fantastical ...

Ron Mallett, a physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, was just 10 years old when he lost his father to a sudden heart attack. This traumatic experience, along with ...

Johannes holds an MSci in Neuroscience from King’s College London, where he worked on projects involving Alzheimer’s disease and Fragile X syndrome. A physicist believes he may have solved the ...

Space — the final frontier. These are the words that introduce every episode of classic "Star Trek," the show that essentially popularized the concept of traveling the stars at the speed of light – or ...

In the moments before the Big Bang, our universe was a hot, dense, and extremely high-energy place. That all changed when the universe exploded 13.8 billion years ago. Rapid inflation divided a single ...

Researchers find that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an excited atomic state while passing through a cloud ...

Moskowitz: We’re going to have a little friendly debate. Billings: Really? I came for a throwdown. Moskowitz: Well, a wrangle. A parley. A confab. Lee, what do you have against time travel? Billings: ...

Faster-than-light travel is impossible according to our current understanding of physics. Wormholes are theoretically possible but require unstable, exotic matter to stabilize. Generation ships are a ...