A machine to send objects into the past is not the cleanest modern evidence with regard to the physical reality of time travel. It is a laboratory illusion which causes waves to act as though part of ...

Sometimes, even the simplest things can set off a quantum phenomenon.

Physicists at NYU have discovered a new type of time crystal—an exotic state of matter whose particles rhythmically “tick” while levitating on sound waves.

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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Time may not be a fundamental element of the universe but rather an illusion ...

Einstein–Rosen bridges may reflect a two-directional structure of time that preserves information and hints at a pre–Big Bang universe.

The quantum world operates by different rules than the classical one we buzz around in, allowing the fantastical to the bizarrely normal. Physicists have described using quantum entanglement to ...

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 ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...