A closed door feels absolute. Light stays in one room, darkness settles in the next, and the boundary seems obvious enough to stop thinking about. Yet the same wall that blocks the glow from your ...

New research suggests time could hold the key to resolving mysteries of gravity, quantum mechanics, and other phenomena in modern physics.

Scientists in Japan have uncovered a strange new behavior in “heavy” electrons — particles that act as if they carry far more mass than usual. These electrons were found to be entangled, sharing a ...

Reality is far stranger than fiction. While our everyday experience suggests a world that follows predictable, intuitive rules, science has repeatedly shown us that the universe operates in ways that ...

Researchers studying the link between strange metals and superconductivity have made a breakthrough towards answering a long standing question in condensed-matter physics Strange metals are highly ...

Physicist Lisa Randall believes an extra dimension may exist close to our familiar reality, hidden except for a bizarre sapping of the strength of gravity as we see it. Boston Globe via Getty Images ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for a fraction of a second and exposing the strange physics that goes on inside the Large Hadron ...