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 ...

Sir Isaac Newton quantified gravity in the same text in which he formulated his three laws of motion ... of the most profound predictions of Einstein's universe, having far-reaching implications ...

A new study reveals that black holes’ inner dynamics may challenge traditional models like the Kerr solution. This research indicates that black holes may be less stable than previously thought due to ...

The theory of special relativity is rife with counterintuitive and surprising effects, the most famous of which are length ...

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

When his granddaughter Evelyn Einstein died in 2011 at the age of 70, she was not a wealthy woman. In fact, she was impoverished at various points in her life, reportedly living out of her car and ...

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

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

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

A good teacher inspires students to discover their imaginations through reading, understand the universe ... Albert Einstein credits this teacher with shepherding his ideas into the viable theory ...