Wormholes have fascinated scientists and science fiction fans alike, but how do they really work? From Einstein’s field ...

The mind-bending concept of time dilation results from a seemingly harmless assumption—that the speed of light is the same for all observers.

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

The physical nature of light is an intriguing scientific mystery as it behaves like a wave in free space and as a particle ...

For decades, physicists have faced one of science’s greatest puzzles: merging quantum mechanics, which describes tiny ...

A still image from a numerical simulation of a black-hole binary merger. Credit: LIGO - N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno ...

Scientists develop a more accurate way to analyse gravitational waves, that could give us a clearer picture of the Universe’s most extreme collisions, led by the University of Portsmouth, England.

Minnie Hauk’s Juddmonte Irish Oaks success at the Curragh on Saturday means that Aidan O’Brien has saddled the winners of 33 ...

Satyendra Nath Bose didn’t just make huge contributions to quantum science, he also welcomed women into what was at the time a male-dominated field. Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta and Rupamanjari Ghosh discuss ...

The modern science biography must hold back no punches in its mission to represent the subject's life, equally celebrating ...

Quantum physics is a branch of science that studies the tiniest things in the universe, like atoms and the even smaller parts ...