WASHINGTON (AP) — In the midst of a federal government shutdown, the U.S. government’s gross national debt surpassed $38 trillion Wednesday, a record number that highlights the accelerating ...

Meta-holograms, the computer-generated holograms assisted with nano-structured metasurfaces, promise efficient recording of light at the nanoscale. Adopting the multiplexing principle further bestows ...

Non-uniform arrays can achieve larger array apertures and estimation accuracy compared to uniform arrays with the same number of elements. However, the non-uniform spacing between array elements poses ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which he signed into law this month, will add $3.4 trillion to the U.S. national debt over the next decade, according to a report the ...

The reporters reviewed the hundreds of items in the bill and their corresponding C.B.O. scores. Source: New York Times analysis of Congressional Budget Office estimates. Note: Amounts are net totals ...

A fringe new theory suggests that time is the fundamental structure of the physical universe, and space is merely a byproduct. According to Gunther Kletetschka, a geologist — not a physicist, you’ll ...

Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist. The theory also ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Time might actually have 3 dimensions. But it also means that the space would actually be one-dimensional, instead of the three dimensions we’re familiar with.

From how the debt works to the debate over it right now. To look at what President Trump's budget bill, which he calls the big, beautiful bill, means for the U.S. debt, congressional correspondent ...

A new proof illuminates the hidden patterns that emerge when addition becomes impossible. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward ...