This article is part of a package in collaboration with Forbes on time capsules, preserving information and communicating with the future. Read more from the report. Yet according to physics, ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

The idea of a particle that races faster than light has long fascinated physicists. Known as the tachyon, it was originally dreamed up to help untangle paradoxes in quantum theory and relativity.

A team of quantum physicists has taken a concept that once lived purely in equations and turned it into hardware reality, creating a single particle of light that behaves as if it occupies 37 distinct ...

The dream of time travel has fueled stories, films, and scientific debates for generations. The idea that you could step into a machine and reappear in another era has captivated people for as long as ...

Time travel is one of the most captivating tropes in science fiction, inspiring countless stories of adventures through the ...

Quantum theory is a mind-bending idea, suggesting that, at the subatomic level, particles can exist in multiple states at the same time. Scientists often give the example of physicist Erwin ...

On 9 July 1925, Heisenberg sent a paper titled ‘Quantum-theoretical re-interpretation of kinematic and mechanical relations’ to Max Born, whom he was assisting at that time, and Born sent the paper to ...

That quantum mechanics is a successful theory is not in dispute. It makes astonishingly accurate predictions about the nature of the world at microscopic scales. What has been in dispute for nearly a ...