Zero-point energy sits at a strange crossroads between hard physics and science fiction, promising limitless power from the fabric of space itself. If it could be tapped in any practical way, it would ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Suppose you want to empty a box. Really, truly empty it. You remove all its visible contents, pump out any gases, and—applying some ...

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 vacuum is nothing but empty space? That isn’t exactly true, at least in the ...