By transforming robot motion into a problem of relativistic geometry, scientists have created a control method that guides ...

Let’s rewind the clock back…oh, I don’t know, let’s say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his ...

"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...

If so, laws might change when the universe itself changes phase. In the early universe, as temperatures and densities shifted, forces split apart from a unified origin. What we call “laws” may be like ...

Humanity has achieved remarkable feats, yet 95% of the universe remains invisible and unexplained. Our theories, general ...

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

On Nov. 2, Kip Thorne took the stage at Harvey Mudd College’s Galileo Auditorium to recount his 50 year odyssey of making ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some sort of real process that happens out ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...