Recent research reveals that quantum mechanics can supersede the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale, ...

A student in my freshman seminar class at Harvard University innocently asked me this week whether gravitational time dilation, as predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, is relevant to ...

Clocking dark matter: optical clocks join the hunt for dark matter. (Courtesy: N Hanacek/NIST) An optical clock has been used to set new constraints on a proposed theory of dark matter. Researchers ...

Researchers have harnessed nonlocal artificial materials to create optical systems that emulate parallel spaces, wormholes, ...

A new report has shed some new light on the hypersonic missile launched by China in July—claiming that it demonstrated a previously unheard-of technological advance. But it’s also raised some ...

When machine learning is used to suggest new potential scientific insights or directions, algorithms sometimes offer ...

Scientists have imposed conditions on how dark matter may interact with ordinary matter. In the search for direct detection of dark matter, the experimental focus has been on WIMPs, or weakly ...

At a fundamental level, what is our Universe made of? This question has driven physics forward for centuries. Even with all the advances we've made, we still don't know it all. While the Large Hadron ...