The quantum revolution in physics — whose 100th anniversary we have just celebrated — taught us that at the most basic level ...

Now it seems that wormholes, those shortcut tunnels through time and space that Albert Einstein theorized and that science fiction depicts as portals between two distant galactic points, are at the ...

Unless you’re a physicist — and, statistically speaking, chances are you’re not — a book about the ins and outs of spacetime ...

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by strange “zebra stripe” patterns in radio waves from the Crab Pulsar — bright bands separated by complete darkness. Now, new research suggests the answer ...

Astronomers studying a distant superluminous supernova uncovered a strange pattern hidden in its light: a rapidly ...

The Ministry of Energy and Mines posted on social media on March 16 that its National Electric System (SEN) suffered a “total disconnection,” without providing details as to the cause of the ...

Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent explosions in the universe. In a fraction of a second, they can release more energy than the sun will emit across its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. Most are ...

Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest explosions in the Universe,” says Joseph Farah, an astrophysicist at the ...

The key to working at a place like Ars Technica is solid news judgment. I’m talking about the kind of news judgment that knows whether a pet peeve is merely a pet peeve or whether it is, instead, a ...

As much as things change for the Raiders, they also stay the same. Las Vegas shook up its roster after a dour 2025 campaign saw it finish with the joint-worst record in the league. Gone were Pete ...

Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version of this story didn't explain the origins of daylight saving time, which was the result of a basic framework originally introduced in the Uniform Time ...