In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

In this first selection of texts from the Wenner Collection, we will see some examples of the use of print to popularize and ...

Two Caltech historians associated with the Einstein Papers Project have gathered together what they consider to be the most important of Einstein's ...

In a world trained to see only the bricks, not the mortar, we miss the forces that bind us. From Rovelli’s physics to ...

In this video, we explore Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, focusing on his insights into gravity and ...

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With ...

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

It is a springtime of revolution throughout the world in 1919 and not just the political kind. Era-defining advances in ...

In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is another possible candidate—planets circling white dwarfs, the hot, dense remnants ...

Confining and rotating extremely cold atoms or molecules within atomic “Ferris wheels” made from laser light could test ...

A mathematical investigation of galactic data suggests elusive dark matter is confined to the rules of gravity.

Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...