Recent scientific breakthroughs are making concepts once confined to science fiction, like time travel, seem tantalizingly ...

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A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a surprising source of entropy in quantum timekeeping—the act of measurement itself. In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists ...

Scientists learned that reading a quantum clock requires orders of magnitude more energy than running it. This surprising imbalance reveals that observation itself shapes the flow and thermodynamics ...

The quote at the end of Back to the Future Part II is a great joke, a wink at the title, and an exciting tease for the cowboy action of Part III.

"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure ...

We live in the present, moving through time. As events come and go, everything fades into the past. But what is time, really?

Hypersonic flight could one day make long-haul travel as quick as a short movie. Researchers are testing how turbulence ...