The idea of a particle that races faster than light has long fascinated physicists. Known as the tachyon, it was originally ...

From four-dimensional hexagons to the mind-bending amplituhedron, geometrical shapes are wilder than we learn at school - and ...

Henri Bergson, on the other hand, was widely misunderstood in the years succeeding the debate from the evening of 6 April, ...

The special relativity theory showed that velocity was purely relative, and from one point of view the same should be true of acceleration, yet physics seemed to show evidence to the contrary.

New mathematical work provides a way to identify when information has been changed by manipulating space-time – and it may form a foundation for future space-time computers ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

There may be an infinite amount of energy locked in the vacuum of space-time. So could we ever harness this energy for ...

THE general theory of relativity has now been before the scientific world for some twenty years, and the special theory considerably longer. Fifteen or sixteen years ago, the theory may be said to ...

Albert Einstein might be the daddy of all eggheads. But as his famous theory of special relativity turns 120, we tip our hats ...

The Big Bang theory is wrong and the universe is sitting inside a black hole, scientists have suggested. Since the 1930s – when Belgian theoretical physicist Georges Lemaitre proposed the universe ...

Quirks & Quarks features our ever-popular listener question show, where we find experts to answer your questions. But here are ten mysteries that science has yet to answer.

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on June 30. Check what happened ...