In the world around us, many things exist in the context of time: a bird's path through the sky is understood as different positions over a period of time, and conversations as a series of words ...

Graham Johnson, a computational biologist and scientific illustrator at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, recalls ...

It sounds like an investor’s wildest dream. A surprising experiment shows that it shouldn’t be. Huge sums are lavished each year on Wall Street economists and strategists asked to gaze into their ...

In 1895, science fiction writer H.G. Wells introduced the world to the concept of time travel. Pick a time, he told his dinner guests in The Time Machine, and manipulate a lever in his machine: “this ...

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 ...