Physicists at Washington University have forged ahead in the field of quantum mechanics by creating a new phase of matter ...

beginning with Walkaround Time (1973). Atlas's study of that piece brings out the choreography's relationship to the stage space. In an homage to Marcel Duchamp, the dancers are initially spread ...

The first is that Einstein’s general theory of relativity famously makes mass bend space and time – so you’d expect a universe like ours, containing mass, to be overall curved in some way ...

This extreme density could bend space-time enough to enable time loops. Thought to be remnants from the universe’s early days, cosmic strings formed during a cosmic “phase transition.” ...