A recent study claims to have calculated a potential method of time travel. It involves a highly theoretical object called a “ring wormhole,” which is a type of wormhole that connects two regions of ...

Imagine a swarm of fireflies, flickering lights on and off in the nighttime space. How does the human brain process and integrate information about duration and spatial position enabling this vision?

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Somin Lee receives funding from the Air Force of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and National Science Foundation (NSF). Cell division, or the process of how daughter cells emerge from a mother cell, is ...

The Abbey of San Galgano in Toscana, Italy, as depiction of space and time. Source: Marc Wittmann Architecture is concerned with space. Architects have learned to envision and construct buildings. A ...