Serious Star Trek fans are familiar with the term nacelles—the long, cylindrical engines that power the Starship ...

“Warp drive” spacetimes and wormhole geometries are useful as “gedanken-experiments” that force us to confront the foundations of general relativity, and among other issues, to precisely formulate the ...

In Star Trek, dilithium crystals — whatever those are — are critical to the operation of a starship’s warp drives. But a Texas professor thinks he can make a baby step towards a warp drive using ...