Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

The rapid acceleration of the universe’s expansion continues to challenge our understanding of fundamental physics. Why the ...

Physicists have long treated space and time as the stage on which quantum particles perform, not as actors in the drama ...

Engineers have found a way to shepherd microrobots with no wires, no radios, and no onboard computers. Instead, they steer them with light patterns designed using the same math physicists use to ...

The lecture will be held virtually. To inscribe into the learnweb course please send an e-mail to (heitger at uni-muenster dot de) or (raimar at math dot uni-muenster dot de). General Relativity: ...

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

Astronomers have finally watched a black hole do something Albert Einstein only described on paper: twist the very fabric of ...

Contemporary physics has learned to describe the universe with unprecedented precision. Yet when it tries to say what time is, it stumbles again and ...

Dustin Henderson and the rest of the squad in Stranger Things get a pretty decent briefer on wormholes by his science teacher ...

The Princeton that Albert Einstein knew in 1933 was sharply divided by the color line; a long-established border—marked by ...

KEY OBSERVATIONS Light from a dead star exploded ten billion years ago, yet it reached Earth not once, but several times, ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...