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 test using atomic clocks will watch superpositions ride Earth’s curved space-time and see if Einstein can play nice with ...

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 ...

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

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

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 Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new ...