Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity was published more than a century ago and and it could save Earth from a black ...

Alan Turing's theories about computation seem to have a startling consequence, placing hard limits on how fast or slow any ...

Patchen Barss’s The Impossible Man is a warts-and-all portrait of Roger Penrose, his Nobel Prize-winning work and his fraught ...

One of my favorite quotes, often attributed to Albert Einstein, goes like this: “The only infinite things are the universe and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the universe.” Once again, in ...

German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein was considered a genius best known for developing the theory of relativity.

New research sets the most stringent limit yet on the mass of the graviton, suggesting it may indeed be massless as predicted ...

Many of us can point to a teacher who directed our talents toward a career, a fulfilling hobby, a better way to understand ourselves.

Here’s where things get wild. Remember that insane scene where our heroes circle the black hole, Gargantua? Yeah, that wasn’t ...

Zack Smith grew up playing video games at Einstein’s Video Arcade on Guadalupe Street. Employees there wore white lab coats ...

Aggression, conflict and even war have become part of daily life. How does one nurture a way of being that is anchored in compassion?

A new graphic novel by a New Yorker cartoonist and Evanstonian transports us through time and space into Einstein's theory of relativity.