Space and time seem like two completely different ideas, but Einstein showed they are interlinked in what is known as ...

We live in the past. When we look deep into the night sky the radiance of the stars we see is anything from minutes to millions of years old: we are stargazing into the past. Even here on earth the ...

Leading physicist and author Carlo Rovelli, whose work has been translated into 41 different languages, is back with a new book, The Order of Time. Rovelli has a lifetime of experience in the field of ...

Physicists are rethinking time itself. Long treated as a basic part of the universe, time may instead be an illusion—a side effect of quantum entanglement. A new study challenges the traditional idea ...

Hungarian logician, mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel revolutionised our view of mathematical truth with his incompleteness theorems. He also drew up the blueprints for a working time machine.