This series of short explainer films with Professor Brian Cox comprises six clips focused on forces, speed and motion. Each ...

The nearest star beyond our Sun is Proxima Centauri, and while it sounds close in astronomical terms, the journey there […] ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, physicists have observed light traveling in reverse, an event that significantly challenges ...

So, you’re driving a car at half the speed of light. (Both hands on the wheel, please.) You turn on the headlights. How fast would you see this light traveling? What about a person standing by the ...

Sound has a speed limit. Under normal circumstances, its waves can travel no faster than about 36 kilometers per second, physicists propose October 9 in Science Advances. Sound zips along at different ...

Cornell University physicist N. David Mermin once described quantum entanglement as "the closest thing we have to magic," since it means that disturbances in one part of the universe can instantly ...