In his classic science-fiction story “The New Accelerator,” published in 1901, H. G. Wells describes a drug that speeds up a person’s metabolism by a factor of 1,000. For the two protagonists who ...

Proposals offering alternatives to Einstein’s relativistic theory of gravitation are almost as old as the theory itself. Einstein even saw them as the beginning of a path that could lead to quantum ...

“Border Czar” Tom Homan has announced at a press conference in Minneapolis that Operation Metro Surge is coming to a close, saying that “a significant drawdown has already been underway this week, and ...

The loudest collision ever recorded between two black holes has allowed scientists to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity in unprecedented detail, showing that the physicist’s predictions ...

The social network for AI bots resembled a spectator battle, with AI enthusiasts competing to make their agents look sentient. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on ...