A team of researchers led by the University of Warwick has developed the first unified framework for detecting "spacetime fluctuations"—tiny, random distortions in the fabric of spacetime that appear ...

Everything around us, from atoms and molecules to planets and galaxies, is governed by two extraordinarily successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics and gravity. Quantum mechanics explains the ...

When we look up at the night sky, we take for granted the 'space' that stretches out infinitely and the 'time' that flows ...

There is a glaring gap in our knowledge of the physical world: none of our well-established theories describe gravity’s quantum nature. Yet physicists expect that this quantum nature is essential for ...

Could the route to the stars be paved not by impossible physics, but by spacetime itself? A new warp drive model has been revealed by a group at the Advanced Propulsion Laboratory (APL), one which for ...

What if our biggest idea about reality is built on a hidden misunderstanding? A new philosophical look at space-time challenges the popular view that the past, present, and future all exist together ...

To square Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity with quantum mechanics requires some currently unknown physics, and that’s led some scientists to question if Einstein’s theory could use some ...

Mind-bending materials called quasicrystals have an orderly structure, but without a regularly repeating pattern. They’ve been found in meteorites and the debris from the first atomic bomb test.

The quantum revolution in physics -- whose 100th anniversary we have just celebrated -- taught us that at the most basic level the world is bizarrely different than it seems. But, we appear to only ...