The fabric of spacetime is roiling with vibrating quantum fields, known as vacuum energy. It's right there, everywhere we look. But could we ever get anything out of it? We can even calculate the ...

There may be an infinite amount of energy locked in the vacuum of space-time. So could we ever harness this energy for anything useful? The idea of vacuum energy comes from quantum field theory, which ...

A team of physicists claims to have pulled energy out of a vacuum, Quanta reports — a trick that required them to teleport it from a different location using quantum tech. The work builds on previous ...

Imagine if we could collect the energy out of thin air. And I mean it quite literally.You know how you were taught that a ...

Amind-bogglingly huge buildup of "vacuum energy," which would occur injust milliseconds, could lead the stellar remnants known as neutron stars toinstantly collapse or explode, scientists now suggest.

In every bit of nothing, there is something. If you zoom in on empty space and take out all the planets and stars and galaxies, you might expect a pure vacuum, but you’d be wrong. In­stead you would ...

The controversial idea that our universe is just a random bubble in an endless, frothing multiverse arises logically from nature’s most innocuous-seeming feature: empty space. Specifically, the seed ...

Vacuum is not synonymous with nothing, at least for physicists. They claim that even seemingly empty space still contains some form of energy that fluctuates constantly, like the small waves that ...

Dark energy and I came of age together. In 1998, two competing groups of astronomers discovered that the expansion of the universe was accelerating; the same year, I graduated from college with a ...