People were making predictions about the physics of No Man’s Sky even before the game had been released. For a long time, the game’s creators had adamantly maintained they were designing a simulated ...

A growing body of theoretical and experimental work in physics is converging on a striking possibility: time, the dimension humans experience as a constant forward flow, may not be a fundamental ...

Zero-point energy sits at a strange crossroads between hard physics and science fiction, promising limitless power from the fabric of space itself. If it could be tapped in any practical way, it would ...

Guess which of these five unbelievable facts are real physics in this April Fools' Day episode of What the Physics?! National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major ...

Reading Christopher Pinney’s 2018 book The Waterless Sea: a Curious History of Mirages, I was struck by a phrase he used to describe mirages, and indeed all illusions: “real, but not true”. There is ...