One of the fundamental mysteries surrounding the concept of time is whether it’s continuous and our chronological measurements are just a way of making the sense of the world, or if it actually breaks ...

Scientists have measured the shortest unit of time ever: the time it takes a light particle to cross a hydrogen molecule. That time, for the record, is 247 zeptoseconds. A zeptosecond is a trillionth ...

Scientists said that "zeptosecond" is the smallest amount of time. The new unit represents one trillionth of a billionth of a second (10 to the -21st power), which is smaller than a millisecond. In ...

"Ennui," 1893, by French artist Gaston La Touche. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain. The International Sanatorium Berghof, high in the Swiss Alps above the flatlands, is a place where people ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...