Gravity has become an unlikely viral villain, blamed for an imagined global blackout in which the planet briefly lets go of ...

We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole ...

Quantum mechanics has always carried a quiet tension. At its core, the theory allows particles to exist in many states at ...

To most of us, time feels as solid as the phone alarm that drags us out of bed or the calendar that fills up faster than we ...

A viral conspiracy theory suggesting that the Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds in August this year has left people ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

A conspiracy theory claims gravity will fail for seven seconds in 2026. The science is wrong—but what would happen if gravity ...

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 ...

China has broken a record by installing a massive hypergravity machine that can "compress" time and space for the benefit of important experiments.