Contemporary physics has learned to describe the universe with unprecedented precision. Yet when it tries to say what time is, it stumbles again and ...

In a bushfire or campfire, it is the glowing soot that we experience as flames. Flames actually extend well above where we ...

Time feels like the most familiar thing in the world, yet it hides one of physics’ hardest questions: why do we only remember ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...

Weather forecasting is one of the most advanced sciences on Earth. But it’s also one of the most complex and humbling. Here's ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jason Alan Snyder is a technologist covering AI and innovation. The AI “bubble” narrative persists because people are diagnosing ...

Demand for computing power—fueled largely by artificial intelligence (AI)—shows no signs of abating. Yet, as AI becomes a potent force in the world, a basic truth emerges: CPUs and GPUs are butting up ...

Thermodynamics is the branch of physics that studies the relationship between heat and other forms of energy. It’s especially focused on energy transfer and conversion and has a lot to contribute to ...