It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Supersonic passenger jets once promised a world where crossing oceans felt as quick as a long lunch break, yet today the ...

The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the speed of light and there ...

Antarctica’s New Year’s celebration is unlike any other: every January 1 scientists physically move the South Pole. This is ...

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

Time travel has long fascinated science fiction, but is riddled with paradoxes like the "grandfather paradox." ...