Researchers at UBC have found a way to mimic the elusive Schwinger effect using superfluid helium, where vortex pairs appear ...

We often marvel at the genius of Albert Einstein, a physicist who revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Yet, even ...

Gravitational waves shake the very fabric of the universe when black holes collide. Today we measure these events and use them to understand the cosmos. Now University of Copenhagen researchers and ...

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On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled ...

Gravitational waves shake the very fabric of the universe when black holes collide. Today we measure these events and use them to understand the ...

Is time something that flows — or just an illusion? Exploring space-time as either a fixed “block universe” or a dynamic fabric reveals deeper mysteries about existence, change, and the very nature of ...

The quantum world is already full of surprises, but a new discovery has added an entire wing to what scientists call the ...

Max Planck is widely recognized as the father of quantum theory for his groundbreaking work on energy quanta. His initial ...

The speed of light, c, is not just a very large number. In modern physics it is a structural constant: the conversion factor ...

So, get this – scientists have managed to get a quantum computer to do something pretty wild. They’ve basically made a ‘time ...

Ten years ago, science confirmed one of Albert Einstein’s most elusive predictions: the existence of gravitational waves. Now ...