For as long as people have looked for answers in the night sky, the idea of stepping into a machine and arriving in an ...

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.

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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 ...

When an intense laser pulse hits a stationary electron, it performs a trembling motion at the frequency of the light field.

Both longtime and aspiring physicists will showcase their work at Brown during the New England regional meeting of the ...

Two recent studies published in Nature and Science Advances explored quantum approaches that could improve the precision of ...

Space science fiction is a lot of things, but it’s never more thrilling than when it takes place in a tiny, fragile dispenser of death. Starfighters are one of the best parts of space adventures, and ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates ...

Some time travel movies totally miss the mark and create plot holes, while others get the science absolutely right.

A groundbreaking study reveals how neurons sense and transmit mechanical forces across their membranes—a key to understanding touch, movement, and development.