A dark point inside a beam of light should not be much of a traveler. Yet in a new experiment, some of those points appeared ...

Space and time looked settled, at least in broad outline. Einstein’s special relativity gave physics a durable framework for ...

Faster-than-light particles have spent decades in physics as both temptation and warning. They offered a way to test the ...

The hypothetical faster-than-light particle known as the tachyon may marry with the special theory of relativity, according to a team of physicists, making its existence more plausible. Tachyons are a ...

The gauge bosons of the standard model of particle physics are responsible for three of the four known forces in the universe ...