Since H.G. Wells published The Time Machine in 1895, the idea of time travel has fascinated scientists and storytellers alike ...

Kim Parkinson writes for the arts and entertainment pages, and covers education and human interest stories for the Gisborne ...

A special purpose acquisition company is a company formed to raise money through an initial public offering so it can later purchase or merge with an existing company. Special purpose acquisition ...

Scientists propose a relatively simple yet still complicated tabletop experiment to test the quantumness of gravity, aiming ...

The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million lightyears from the earth.

Tachyons might sound like creatures ripped out of a George R. R. Martin novel, but the reality is that they refer to as-yet-non-existent particles not only capable of travelling faster than the speed ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment conducted at the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists have attempted to discover if the universe's heaviest ...

When two objects share a quantum state, their behaviour becomes mysteriously linked. If you measure one object, the state of ...

Mathematical equations have been the greatest tool to explain the world around us and the key to advance our knowledge about the universe.As reported by Greek, Galileo Galilei, an Italian physicist ...

The force of gravity is transmitted through spacetime at the speed of light, which creates wavefronts we can detect with special ... of aether theory when developing his theory of relativity.

Physicists have at least as much confidence in the special theory of relativity as in quantum theory; the problem of devising a unified theory appears to be still unsolved.