We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole ...

Quantum mechanics has always carried a quiet tension. At its core, the theory allows particles to exist in many states at ...

Gravity has become an unlikely viral villain, blamed for an imagined global blackout in which the planet briefly lets go of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time ...

Quantum theory has long treated time as a silent backdrop, a parameter that never jitters even as particles flicker in and ...

For the second time in as many months, images gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) are raising questions about the structures of time and gravity, and the fabric of space. Using two HST images ...