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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

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

Durham also contributes to the Vera Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, helping manage its vast data and ...

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.

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

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

One of the most awkward parts of writing a book is that, eventually, authors have to ask people for “blurbs” – the endorsements that you see on the cover of a book, encouraging you to buy it. I am now ...