As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island. We can imagine that ...

One of the most important ideas in physics is also one of the most misunderstood: entropy. It describes how energy naturally spreads out over time and helps explain why time appears to move in only ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

Mind-bending materials called quasicrystals have an orderly structure, but without a regularly repeating pattern. They’ve been found in meteorites and the debris from the first atomic bomb test.

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The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass ...

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