For more than a century, physics has quietly chipped away at our common-sense idea of time as a straight line marching from past to future. Now, a wave of new theories and experiments is pushing a bolder claim: time itself might be less like an arrow and more like a tangled web, a block, ...
The universe, for all its glittering galaxies and serene night skies, may be racing not toward a quiet fade-out, but toward a violent, all‑crushing finale. New modeling of cosmic expansion is reviving one of the most dramatic ideas in cosmology: that space itself could one day slam into reverse, collapsing everything back into a ...
On a quiet January night in 2024, a network of ultra-precise atomic clocks ticked along as usual – until they didn’t. For just a fraction of a moment, several of them slipped out of sync in a way no one expected, as if time itself had snagged on something invisible. At almost the same ...
The idea that our universe might be just one of many used to sound like the stuff of late-night science fiction. Now, serious physicists, cosmologists, and philosophers are wrestling with it in research papers, sky surveys, and particle accelerators. The multiverse has shifted from a fringe thought experiment to a genuine scientific question that ...
Every galaxy you see in those jaw-dropping Hubble images is held together by something invisible, something that silently outweighs all the stars, planets, gas, and dust we know. Physicists call it dark matter, and for decades they’ve treated it like a cold, dead scaffolding for the universe. But a growing group of thinkers is ...
The universe has an origin story that most of us learn in a single phrase: the Big Bang. But in the last two decades, that once-daring idea has started to look almost conservative compared with what cosmologists are now proposing. From bouncing universes to cosmic inflation fields and simulated realities, new theories are chipping ...
For more than a century, physics has treated consciousness as an awkward afterthought, something that just “happens” in brains while the real action unfolds in particles and fields. Yet as neuroscientists, physicists, and philosophers collide over the hardest problems in science, a stranger possibility is slipping from the fringe into serious debate: what if ...
On paper, our universe should have torn itself apart, collapsed in on itself, or never formed complex structures at all. Yet here we are, orbiting a star in a galaxy stitched together by forces that, in many cases, we still don’t fully understand. From cosmic glue that seems too weak to do the job, ...
For decades, black holes have been cast as the ultimate full stop of the universe: regions where gravity wins, light loses, and everything ends in silence. Now, a new set of theories is rewriting that script, suggesting black holes might be less like cosmic trash compactors and more like tunnels or gateways that reshape ...
They lurk in the dark, bend time itself, and swallow light so completely that even our best telescopes see only their shadows, yet black holes have never been more visible in our imagination than they are now. In the past few years, astronomers have captured images of their silhouettes, weighed some that defy current ...
