Gravity has become an unlikely viral villain, blamed for an imagined global blackout in which the planet briefly lets go of ...

Mind = blown.

Quantum mechanics has always carried a quiet tension. At its core, the theory allows particles to exist in many states at ...

We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole ...

The idea of emergent gravity is still new and requires a lot of assumptions in its calculations to make it work. But if experimental evidence ever proves it real, we would need to totally rewrite the ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human ...

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Do dead stars glow? A strange gravitational phenomenon could be generating enormous amounts of light around neutron stars, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

It was quite a leap. Conspiracy theorists are being brought back down to Earth after NASA scientists debunked a wild claim ...

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study suggests this mysterious ingredient may not be necessary after all. Using an ...

Just over a week ago, European physicists announced they had measured the strength of gravity on the smallest scale ever. In a clever tabletop experiment, researchers at Leiden University in the ...

To most of us, time feels as solid as the phone alarm that drags us out of bed or the calendar that fills up faster than we ...