There is a parlor game physics students play: Who was the greater genius? Galileo or Kepler? (Galileo.) Maxwell or Bohr?

Starting with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on October 5, the Physics and Chemistry prizes will be announced on ...

For over a century, physicists have grappled with one of the most profound questions in science: How do the rules of quantum mechanics, which govern the smallest particles, fit with the laws of ...

Carlo Rovelli is a physicist at Aix–Marseille University, Marseille, France, and an associate member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in London, Ontario, Canada. Nature seems to have played us ...

The weak-equivalence principle is integral to general relativity, so these test results offer yet more support for a core theory of our universe. In 1916, Albert Einstein dared to declare that Isaac ...

How would our world be viewed by observers moving faster than light in a vacuum? Such a picture would be clearly different from what we encounter every day. "We should expect to see not only phenomena ...

Einstein was right: artist's impression of a neutron-star merger. (Courtesy: NASA) Multimessenger observations of neutron stars have been used by astrophysicists in the US to put Einstein’s general ...

IN MARCH, a team of physicists announced that they had detected ripples in space-time produced at the universe’s birth. Their claims took the world by storm. One of my colleagues declared it the most ...

New impressions A visualization of a curved space–time “sea” from the general-relativity simulations carried out by the authors.(Courtesy: James Mertens) From the Genesis story in the Old Testament to ...

Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is actually two separate theories: his special theory of relativity, postulated in the 1905 paper, The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and his theory of general ...

A recent theory of gravity has stimulated intense debate and many explorations of its implications. There is, however, an example that served as a model for Hořava’s theory. The example, due to ...