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Researchers at Pointcloud GmbH in Zürich, Switzerland, have packed advanced 4D sensing technology — once too bulky for everyday use — onto a single silicon chip. It’s a 4D imaging sensor that maps the ...

It is tempting to believe that effects arising from Einstein’s theory of relativity, where objects move at speeds close to the speed of light, arise mainly at very large length scales, for example the ...

The hyperdrive from Star Wars appears to depict an ultra-relativistic motion through space, extremely close to the speed of light. Under the laws of relativity, you neither reach nor exceed the speed ...

For the third time, scientists have detected gravitational waves — the ripples in space-time created by objects moving throughout the Universe. The discovery was made once again by LIGO, or the Laser ...