We treat the seven-day week as a law of nature, yet France once tried ten-day weeks — and Bill Gates now imagines three.

Confirming a pulsar star would enable unprecedented tests of General Relativity. Such a discovery would revolutionize physics ...

Ripples in space-time from a pair of merging black holes have been recorded in unprecedented detail, enabling physicists to test predictions of general relativity ...

Scientists reveal that time passes slightly faster on Mars due to weaker gravity. Einstein’s theory explains why humans would ...

Albert Einstein reminds us through this quote that true intelligence lies in clarity, not complexity. If you can explain an ...

Can Mars let humans age faster? It sounds more poetic than reality, but it may be true technically. Two identical clocks: One on Earth other on Mars, .

Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for a theory that half of the people might not even have heard of. His Theory of Relativity, though world-changing, was not cited. Yet while delivering his ...

The two pillars of modern physics, quantum theory and Einstein’s theory of general relativity, seem incompatible with each other. For those pillars to align, gravity would have to obey quantum physics ...

At the Wits Digital Dome, Sjava reflects on 10 years of music by placing himself not above but among the stars that shaped ...

While a rancher may not be thinking about Einstein’s theory of relativity when using GPS to guide his tractor through a field or the proud owner of a new iPhone may not dwell over quantum mechanics, ...

The sharpest black hole collision ever detected just gave Einstein another win—and raised hopes that the next one might ...

If you love planets, this is the month for you! At the start of February, Jupiter is the most brilliant planet on view, high ...