Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

Physicists have long treated space and time as the stage on which quantum particles perform, not as actors in the drama ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...

Hundreds of millions of debris fragments zip around Earth at speeds exceeding 15,000 mph, posing a constant threat to astronauts and spacecraft. Thanks to prohibitive costs, no one is bothering to ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

Wealth quote of the day by Peter Thiel, “Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.” In ...

Floquet control uses time-periodic drives to engineer quantum systems, creating dynamic changes in material properties ...

Astronomers have seen spacetime itself wobble near a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, revealed during a star’s destruction, confirms a major prediction of Einstein’s theory of ...