Physicists artificially slowed down time to reveal the bizarre Terrell-Penrose effect, a consequence of special relativity. This image from the experiment shows a sphere seemingly moving at 99.9 ...

Thousands of markings on objects made around 40,000 years ago may have been more than just doodles, a new analysis suggests ...

A century after Erwin Schrödinger sketched out a bold vision for how we perceive color, scientists have finally filled in the missing pieces. A Los Alamos team used advanced geometry to show that hue, ...

The 19th century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins paid homage to the kingfisher’s brilliant plumage in his poem “As Kingfishers ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

In a striking example of how digital art and luxury culture collide, a 21-year-old digital artist recently went viral by depicting a $3 million Ferrari F40 suspended from the ceiling of a luxury home ...

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...