From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this ...

In the 1920s, Albert Einstein and one of his former students developed a way to keep food cold using heat. It was designed to ...

Astronomers uncover a cosmic mystery: an extra image in an Einstein Cross points to a massive dark matter halo.

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...

Outdoor Life sent its resident humorist to cover the 11th BASS Masters Classic. When he returned his only comment was “I hope ...

The Schwinger effect reveals how vacuum fluctuations can produce real particles under strong electric fields, now explored ...

A ‘quantum telephone’ connecting atomic nuclei could make practical quantum computers easier to build and use.

New observations of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, revealed that the supermassive blackhole has experienced several ...

Gravitational waves can be described as ripples in the fabric of space-time, generated by the acceleration of massive objects. These waves travel at the speed of light and are often produced during ...

The professor emeritus at Kyoto University wrote many books introducing the beauty of space and physics to general readers.

New measurements on Bose-Einstein condensate could help us better understand how objects transition from being quantum and ordered to classical and chaotic ...