Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...

Water is everywhere, from the snowpack in the mountains to the tap in our kitchens. But while we often think about rainfall ...

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 ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

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Metal clusters made of thousands of atoms showed quantum interference, offering new insight into how large objects follow ...

The latest video features a series of loops, which grow larger as they're completed. What does it take for a Lego car to ...

The space physicist Michele Dougherty has stepped aside as president of the Institute of Physics, which publishes Physics World. The move was taken to avoid any conflicts of interest given her ...

OpenAI would like scientists to work through their latest research paper with ChatGPT as their co-author. On Tuesday, the ...