Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

Hic sunt leones," remarks Stefano Liberati, one of the authors of the paper and director of IFPU. The phrase refers to the hypothetical singularity ...

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Researchers have developed a new quantum theory of gravity which describes gravity in a way that's compatible with the Standard Model of particle physics, opening the door to an improved understanding ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal ...

When an object moves extremely fast—close to the speed of light—certain basic assumptions that we take for granted no longer ...

so Certainty alone is what compels the way He always acts, as inevitable as the best solution of equations, given by Dirac — ...

Isabel Rabey reviews Einstein’s Tutor: the Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics by Lee Philips ...

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The physique that changed the concepts of space and of time with the theory of relativity and the famous AND=MC2Nobel ...

On Monday, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the ACES set of atomic clocks. It will be docked to the International Space Station (ISS) to meas ...