Albert Einstein changed science forever with special and general relativity, redefining space, time, and gravity. Yet after ...

The researchers from Chinese institutes, including BGI-Research, home to the State Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies, the National Institute of Pathogen Biology in Beijing and ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image shows eight spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that ...

Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the collision of two black holes. That moment in 2015, known as GW150914, ...

Studying black holes is immensely difficult, but with gravitational wave detection, astrophysicists do have a way to directly analyze these mysterious objects. A new study details the “clearest ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

Not just Einstein but every physicist of his day thought such a process impossible; it would operate faster than light, in apparent violation of relativity theory. In effect, quantum mechanics does ...

Born the son of a blacksmith and lacking formal education, Faraday self-taught science while working at a bookbinding shop.

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A violin owned by Albert Einstein that was authenticated by a University of Cambridge academic has fetched £860,000 at ...

Auctioneers think it might be the highest price ever paid for a violin not previously owned by a concert violinist.