China’s latest advance with its so‑called artificial sun has pushed fusion plasma into a regime many physicists long treated ...

Scientists have created the first "time-crystal" two-body system in an experiment that seems to bend the laws of physics. It comes after the same team recently witnessed the first interaction of the ...

Michio Kaku, host of Talk Radio Network’s “Science Fantastic,” has a new book out–“Physics of the Impossible.” It has already hit the NY Times Bestseller list. The book is a scientific exploration ...

The long road from theory to “impossible” milestones For most of the past century, fusion lived in the realm of theory and incremental lab work, a slow grind of plasma physics that rarely broke into ...

Let’s face it, bending the rules is fun, even as adults. But the great thing about being a scientist is that you literally get paid to bend the rules of actual science, especially physics, which has a ...

A pair of scientists from the UK recently published a pre-print research paper discussing the theory of a universe with no beginning. Imagine it: our universe has always existed. The Big Bang either ...

Until recently, scientists had never detected black holes in the “mass gap”—now, particle physicists are exploring ideas beyond the Standard Model that could explain them. On May 21, 2019, a ripple in ...

Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible is an American documentary television series on Science which first aired in the United States on December 1, 2009. The series is hosted by theoretical ...

Alternative reality If a lifeboat is never used, because the ship it is on never sinks, is it still a lifeboat? (Courtesy: iStock/Tramino) If a 1 kg mass is dropped from a height of 100 m, what is its ...

Pondering the scale of the cosmos can feel as if you’re peering over the edge of the brink; it can be daunting enough to make you want to flee to the comforts of working, commuting, and other ...