From phone boxes and flux capacitors to black holes and hot tubs, sci-fi has created plenty of ways to explore the fourth ...

Time travel is a common topic within science fiction, and books like Stephen King's 11/22/63 and Madeleine L'Engle's A ...

Deep beneath the city of Hangzhou, engineers recently completed the installation of a massive rotating machine. The device sits inside a 230-square-meter circular subterranean chamber positioned 15 ...

On the 40th anniversary of the “Back to the Future” movie premiere, Northbrook-based insurance giant Allstate is traveling back to the past to reveal its little-known role in developing the DeLorean, ...

Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at CU Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that ...