One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner atop its Atlas 5 rocket at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the June 5 Crew Flight Test launch. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky In the unforgiving void of space, where errors are ...

Physicists from Imperial College London have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in quantum physics by reimagining the ...

Building such facilities off Earth could have a lot of benefits. Early projects are underway. Last week, the Florida-based company Lonestar Data Holdings launched a shoebox-size device carrying data ...

In the 1900s, Albert Einstein unified the concepts of space and time, giving us a useful new way to picture the universe. At the start of the 20th century, physicists had a problem: The speed of light ...

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She calculated that collisions involving three different types of subatomic ...

Galaxy NGC 6505 and its surrounding Einstein ring, which represents light from a more distant galaxy behind it. ESA / Euclid / Euclid Consortium / NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, G.