Physicist Albert Einstein only lived in Bern for a short time, where he developed his famous theory of relativity. What ...

Kellogg Stelle was a professor of physics at Imperial College London for decades until his death last month. In 1977, he developed a particle theory of gravity that’s renormalizable, but the theory’s ...

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

Einstein’s theory of relativity reveals that time is not fixed — it bends, stretches, and slows depending on speed and ...

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

Black holes, regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are intriguing and extensively ...

Two distant black hole mergers detected in late 2024 have emitted powerful gravitational waves that matched predictions made over a century ago by Albert Einstein.

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

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

Magazine explores the wild theory that Satoshi Nakamoto was a time-traveling AI sent back to build the perfect, unstoppable ...

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

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