Physics
There's no way to Measure the Speed of Light in a Single Direction
A new study shows that not even cosmology can verify Einstein's assumption about the speed of light.
A new Type of Atomic Clock Uses Entangled Atoms. At Most, it Would be off by 100 Milliseconds Since the Beginning of the Universe
Scientists have made a clock so accurate you wouldn't have to reset it for billions of years.
There’s a new record for the shortest time measurement: how long it takes light to cross a hydrogen molecule
To measure small differences in time, you need a really tiny clock, and researchers in Germany have discovered the smallest…
Time Travel, Without the Pesky Paradoxes
So you've built a time machine. What prevents you from creating a paradox that dooms us all?
Even Comets Can Have Auroras. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Does
The ESA's Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ended four years ago. On September 30th 2016 the spacecraft was directed into…
Behold! The Black Hole Collision Calculator!
A new tool called the Black Hole Collision Calculator let's users see just how powerful a collision between a black…
NASA’s New Video Shows You What it’s Like Traveling Close to the Speed of Light
NASA has just released an informative video that lets potential interstellar travellers know what they're in for!
Could a tabletop experiment detect gravitational waves and determine the quantum nature of gravity?
A tabletop gravitational wave detector could take decades to build, but it could answer the most fundamental questions in physics.
Complete and Total Mayhem in a Distant Galaxy Collision
A cluster of galaxies is nothing trivial. The shocks, the turbulence, the energy, as all of that matter and energy…
How an Advanced Civilization Could Exploit a Black Hole for Nearly Limitless Energy
A black hole as a source of energy? We know black holes as powerful singularities, regions in space time where…