Instant travel seems impossible, but a recent breakthrough may change everything we thought we knew about the futuristic ...

Last week in Skywatch, I described how stars are born in gigantic families in part one of the trilogy of a star’s birth, life and death. Every phase is controlled mainly by gravity. All stars are ...

Last week in Starwatch, I described how stars are born in gigantic families in part one of the trilogy of a star’s birth, ...

The central problem of philosophy, Newton wrote, seems to be that of discovering the forces of nature. Physics, however, does ...

The US has the most nuclear power plants in the world. However, despite this, it remains a divisive subject that people seem to either embrace or shun in equal measure. We won't go into this argument ...

More than a century later, scientists are still proving Albert Einstein right. The famed physicist’s revolutionary general theory of relativity debuted in 1915, positing that gravity can be understood ...

Time seems to be one of the most obvious things in the universe: it moves forward, seconds change minutes, and the past cannot be returned. However, modern physics has long shown that everything is ...

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have uncovered a new way to manipulate unusual magnetic states by exploiting “frustration” inside a crystal’s atomic structure. The team discovered a rare system where ...