This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Having just orbited our way through another ...

In 1935, Austrian-born physicist Erwin Schrödinger described a thought experiment that magnified a glaring problem at the heart of quantum mechanics. To this day, the problem remains, summed up by ...

Physicists say the multiverse saddles us with a paradox. Multiverse cosmology builds on cosmic inflation, the idea that the universe underwent a short burst of rapid expansion in its earliest stages.

Netflix’s The Cloverfield Paradox endured mixed reviews in the hours since it made a surprise debut after the Super Bowl on Sunday, but the latest film in J. J. Abrams Cloverfield franchise has ...

The nature of time is one of the biggest mysteries in science. Scientists simply do not understand what time is, at least partially, because it does not behave the same way in all circumstances. For ...