Mike Marcum didn’t have a lab, funding, or a PhD. Just a pile of salvaged electronics — and a theory. One night in Missouri, he fired up his homemade device. It formed a vortex. He tossed in a screw.

The intricate system allegedly operated through electronic oscillography, analyzing sound waves with unprecedented precision and converting them back into their original forms. Light could be ...

Spotify is putting its users’ increased subscription fees to good use. Over the last few years, the streaming giant has rolled out several new features and updated many existing components. From ...

We all know there’s no such thing as a time machine, but that’s never stopped Hollywood from building them. These time-defying contraptions fill us with wonder because, while we’re innately curious ...

Travelling in time through any means other than living normally in a four-dimensional relativistic universe is almost certainly impossible. Yes, it's true that we do actually have a current world ...

Time Machine backups don’t add up! Or, rather, if you’re viewing the contents of a Time Machine backup volume in the Finder and choose File > Get Info and enable Calculate All Sizes, the totals of all ...

In 2002, H.G. Wells’ classic 1895 novella, The Time Machine, was given a glossy modern makeover as a Hollywood feature directed by the legendary author’s great-grandson, British filmmaker Simon Wells.

Time travel is theoretically possible, scientists have said. There is no mathematical reason why a time travel machine could not be able to disrupt the spacetime continuum enough to go backwards in ...