By taking general relativity into higher dimensions, a trio of physicists has proven that a mathematical pattern of ripples ...

Using just a pen and paper, a team of scientists has calculated how space and time could crystallize to form tiny black holes ...

What if our biggest idea about reality is built on a hidden misunderstanding? A new philosophical look at space-time ...

In holographic theories, physicists may have traced the pliability of space-time to its quantum roots: a measure of ...

New impressions A visualization of a curved space–time “sea” from the general-relativity simulations carried out by the authors.(Courtesy: James Mertens) From the Genesis story in the Old Testament to ...

Space and time are like the irremovable spectacles through which the human mind sees the world, and without which it would ...

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...

Long and winding road: The Juice space probe taking the long way to Jupiter and its moons - Copyright NASA/AFP/File NASA Long and winding road: The Juice space probe ...