For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity. One explains the tiny world of particles; the other describes ...

Albert Einstein’s name has become shorthand for genius in theoretical physics. We tend to picture him scribbling equations ...

Space and time seem like two completely different ideas, but Einstein showed they are interlinked in what is known as ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

Einstein proposed and published his theories of special and general relativity in 1905 and 1915. The concepts are monumental ...

Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before ...

From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this ...

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made by Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

The findings resolve a long-standing problem in fundamental physics. Scientists at Hiroshima University have created a ...