In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

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Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...

Lawrence Krauss, a world-renowned physicist and former Arizona State U. professor accused of sexual misconduct, exchanged ...

For years, the idea that we might be living inside a vast computer program has drifted from philosophy seminars into ...

The late Professor Peter Higgs has gifted his Nobel Prize medal to the university where he proposed a ground-breaking idea ...

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A researcher identified gamma ray emissions that appear to have originated from dark matter, but other physicists still ...

For years, the idea that we might be living inside a vast computer program has drifted from philosophy seminars into ...

Over geological time, information loss is the norm, not the exception. The “unitarity” principle of quantum mechanics says ...

Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole ...