Wormholes sit at the edge of science and storytelling, promising shortcuts across the cosmos and even pathways through time.
A new software package detailed by Chinese scientists promises to tell what time it is on the moon, accounting for effects of ...
Perihelion is the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun. The word comes from Greek and literally means around ...
There’s an adage coined by [Ian Betteridge] that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word “No”.
Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology and Yale University are initiating a first-of-its-kind experiment designed to detect gravitons, the hypothesized quantum building blocks of gravity.
Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are holes.
In this last part of our series on recently digitized books from the Wenner Collection, we are focusing on works that ...
The theory that gravitons lose energy thru gravitational redshift while traveling against the force of a gravitational field ...
The standard explanation has been dark energy, an invisible force added into the equations to make the math work. But now, an ...
The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study ...
Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...
This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...