The flow of time isn’t as consistent as we might think – gravity slows it down, so clocks on the surface of Earth tick slower than those in space. Now researchers have measured time passing at ...

Some events happen too fast to be captured in a photograph, no matter how quickly you hit the camera button. For example, certain quantum events are considered to be instantaneous, so they're hard to ...

A millimeter might not seem like much. But even a distance that small can alter the flow of time. “This is fantastic,” says theoretical physicist Marianna Safronova of the University of Delaware in ...

The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that would stretch time and test ...

In 1797, English scientist Henry Cavendish measured the strength of gravity with a contraption made of lead spheres, wooden rods and wire. In the 21st century, scientists are doing something very ...