What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...
Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s ...
Many would go on to identify the writings of William Shakespeare to be vintage classics, but wait, this is partially true for ...
A ccording to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...
You don’t need to be a math genius to start learning quantum physics; many books break it down simply. There are books that ...
Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...
In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is ...
Periodically, the European Space Agency (ESA) releases images that provide breathtaking views of the cosmos, courtesy of its ...
"For the last 20 years, people believed that the cosmological constant is positive, and the universe will expand forever," Tye says. "The new data seem to indicate that the cosmological constant is ...
On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...
According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...
For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...