On July 12, NASA released the first full images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), offering a deeper, more detailed look at a quintet of celestial phenomena. Aside from being 100 times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope, the JWST is capable of seeing deeper into theread more
In India: a team of theoretical physicists have an idea that may allow for the construction of a “stable” artificial wormhole, a potential shortcut through space/time that might allow travelers to cover interstellar distances in a mere instance. More formally known as an Einstein-Rosen bridge, a wormhole is the linkingread more
A new archaeological find in New Mexico has added to a growing body of evidence that modern humans have been present in the Americas for much longer than the conventionally-accepted duration of 13,000 years, with the discovery of a set of 23,000-year-old footprints made by children playing in the tracks ofread more
“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.” ~ William Gibson While physicists and philosophers have been trying to unravel the mystery of time itself for, well, a long time now, the latter half of Gibson’s quote is well worth looking at: if our perception of time—a or moreread more