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, ...

Warp drives have long lived in the realm of science fiction, but the underlying physics that inspired them is very real and surprisingly precise. As researchers probe the edges of general relativity ...

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, ...

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 ...