A growing body of theoretical and experimental work in physics is converging on a striking possibility: time, the dimension ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

Time is not to be trusted. This should come as news to no one. Yet recent times have left people feeling betrayed that the reliable metronome laying down the beat of their lives has, in a word, gone ...

“What is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it… I do not know”, famously quipped Saint Augustine. Our modern understanding of time is more scientific than ever, and many ...

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For the first time, scientists have observed electrons in graphene behaving like a nearly perfect quantum fluid, challenging a long-standing puzzle in physics. By creating ultra-clean samples, the ...

It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless.

At the beginning of the 20th century it might have seemed that there was nothing new to discover in physics. Not anymore. Today it is becoming increasingly clear that there are problems that physics – ...