A glass slips from your hand, hits the floor, and shatters into pieces. The sound fades quickly. Heat spreads into the room.

Think of the Strings as the General Relativity of Einstein, the Electromagnetic Equations of Maxwell, and the Quantum ...

In a 1923 book called “The Principle of Relativity,” Albert Einstein seemed to call out to better-equipped scientists of the future to establish the truth of his mind-bending theoretical work. “Apart ...

In a bold step toward solving one of science’s most puzzling problems, researchers have proposed a new way to bring gravity into the same mathematical language as the other forces of nature. While the ...

Gravity, as most people understand it, is the familiar force that pulls a falling apple toward Earth. But for astronomers and ...

Do you remember Vivian Vance, Lucy’s friend on “I Love Lucy”? Vivian was crazy and trouble-prone, but not to the extent of Lucy. As such, Vivian served as a literary foil for Lucy. Her presence (Lucy!

In Part 4 of my interview series with controversial physicist Bob Lazar, he contrasts current physics laws with future ones, ...

The nature of quantum entanglement remains an outstanding problem in physics. But Albert Einstein's theories, along with insights from quantum computing, could finally put the mystery to rest. When ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In 1935, ...

In the middle of the day on Monday, the moon will pass directly in front of the sun, causing a solar eclipse that will darken a path across the U.S. from Texas to Maine. Observing a total eclipse ...