Last week, we touched upon E=mc2, and how Einstein’s theory of relativity turned the world of physics upside-down. Now, we’re using that theory to show why the very concept of time may not be what you ...

Time already behaves strangely in modern physics. It can stretch, slow, and split depending on speed and gravity. Now a new ...

Did you know that moving a clock one inch toward the ground would result in a slower tick compared to the same clock positioned higher up? Gravity doesn't just pull things; it also bends time.

In a dual set of papers published in Science last week, an international group of researchers presented an experiment which used relativistic time dilation to measure the curvature of spacetime. The ...

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Despite more than a century of efforts to show otherwise, it seems Albert Einstein can still do no wrong. Or at least that’s the case for his special theory of relativity, which predicts that time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trapped ions already power quantum computers and the world’s most precise clocks. Now, by merging those strengths, researchers are ...