Could there be a time particle?

Measuring time using the Earth’s rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the ‘tick’ of an atom

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com

I read recently that scientists allegedly agree that there is no increase in extreme weather events and conditions. If that’s so, the journals I checked must not yet have got the memo. The German Helm

It’s difficult to know for sure how many electrons are in the Universe. British physicist Arthur Eddington (1882–1944) came up with a number in 1938, now known as the ‘Eddington number’. Eddington’s c

Projecting our consciousness into other bodies and walking on alien worlds might not be such a far-flung concept