Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

STOCKHOLM — John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for research on the ...

Here’s a thought experiment. You’re a pediatrician. A child walks into your consulting room accompanied by a concerned mother. You do tests, you observe. Fairly quickly you arrive at a diagnosis.

A merican philosopher John Searle, widely known for his famous "Chinese room" argument produced in 1980, has died aged 93, ...

Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ...

The faster you move, the stranger time becomes. By imagining how light travels to two people moving at different speeds, Einstein showed that time isn’t absolute. His thought experiment revealed that ...

What do Mussolini’s fascist Italy, Stalin’s Soviet Union, Hitler’s Nazi Germany, Putin’s authoritarian government and now President Donald Trump’s administration all have in common? Parades ...

I n 1927, a respected physicist conducted one of the largest experiments into telepathy the world has ever undertaken, ...

The people behind the "Star Wars" franchise wanted to make a prequel called "Rogue One" in 2015 (for release the next year), telling the back story of those who got the Death Star's plans to Princess ...