Ron Mallett, a physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, was just 10 years old when he lost his father to a sudden heart attack. This traumatic experience, along with ...

Time travel has long lived in the realm of fantasy, but a growing body of research is quietly shifting it into a serious scientific conversation. Instead of DeLorean-style leaps into the past, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists have taken one more step down the very long road to time travel. A new paper combines the Alcubierre “warp” drive with the idea of ...

Cosmic strings are artifacts of what the universe looked like in the moments before it rapidly changed from a high-energy to low-energy environment—the Big Bang. Today, scientists believe cosmic ...

A trip through time has always sparked curiosity. The idea that you could step into a machine and emerge in the past or future has captured human imagination for generations. While science fiction ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Time is a straightforward concept - or is it? The passing of minutes and years isn't as easy to explain as many assume.

Scientists have taken one more step down the very long road to time travel. A new paper combines the Alcubierre “warp” drive with the idea of “controlled closed timelike curves.” Though far out, ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...