Recent discoveries in the realm of physics have pointed to the possibility of time anomalies that challenge our current ...

What does it mean to be to space-time? The seemingly simple question gets to the essence of twentieth-century physics and has ...

Fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe. The theory combines the ideas of particles and waves into a concentration of energy that flows throughout space and time.

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Quantum theory has been remarkably successful ever since its inception 100 years ago. And yet, there is a glaring mismatch between the discrete, quantum nature of matter and the apparent continuous, ...

For more than a century, physicists have relied on two separate rulebooks to describe nature. Quantum mechanics excels at explaining atoms, photons, and every jiggle inside laboratories. Einstein’s ...

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 ...

Samuel Scott Jr. had a bad day on June 1, 2018. After he parked his Jeep Compass with the keys in the ignition and the engine running near his aunt’s home in Miami, a thief hopped in the vehicle and ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Samuel Scott Jr. had a bad day on June 1 ...