Nature speaks to theoretical physicists to explore the real theories that inspired the hit series. Warning: contains spoilers ...

The many worlds interpretation suggests that every decision creates parallel universes, meaning infinite alternate realities exist alongside our own. Republicans dumbfounded by Trump’s calls for harsh ...

The ball rolls across the floor because it was kicked, just as Earth orbits the sun because it is tugged by gravity. The connection between cause and effect is fundamental to how we understand the ...

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence ...

For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum theory—our two best bets on understanding the universe on a macroscopic and ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is described extremely well by quantum theory, while the world of gravitation ...

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Regardless of the answers, the era of entanglement under infinite book‐keeping is giving way to an era of entanglement under limited books, limited clocks and limited gates. And in this more realistic ...

The sudden appearance of a cryptic symbol has added credence to one compelling theory about "Avengers: Doomsday." ...

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Because of this deep connection, it’s often more accurate to think of entangled particles not as two separate things, but as ...