"The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from." Scientists have made the most accurate predictions yet of the elusive space-time ...

To construct a warp drive, we'd need 10 times more negative energy than all of the positive energy in the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

Theoretical computer scientists are always probing the relationship of space (memory) and time. For 50 years, experts knew that a calculation of X steps required X/log X memory slots, but a new study ...

Greene offers up a garden hose as a good example of what the fourth dimension looks like. From far away, this garden hose may ...