Thousands of people claim to have suddenly walked into another era—only to snap back moments later. These “time slips” blur the line between memory, physics, and the unknown. California Highway Patrol ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

The Betfair Exchange is entering a new era with redesigned market graphs that will help punters track odds movements more closely than ever. Since the Betfair Exchange revolutionised online betting in ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, scientists succeeded in superheating gold to a temperature that's 14 times its known melting point. Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory ...

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Just about anybody who played hide-and-seek as a kid remembers counting, with eyes (presumably) covered, in units of one-one-thousand. “One-one-thousand. Two-one-thousand. Three-one-thousand.” It’s ...

Clocks might be far more fundamental to physics than we ever realized. A new theory suggests what we see around us – from the smallest of quantum actions to the cosmic crawl of entire galaxies – could ...

Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist. The theory also ...

Computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil believes humanity will achieve “longevity escape velocity” in just four years. The concept basically states that due to medical and technological advances, ...