A new recipe for gravity could help solve some of the universe's greatest mysteries. It suggests that the concept of "quantum gravity" could arise from entropy, possibly solving puzzles put forth by ...

Scientists have determined a way to measure gravity on microscopic levels, perhaps bringing them closer to forming a theory of "quantum gravity" and to solving some major cosmic mysteries. Quantum ...

Scientists are trying to figure out to what extent a new theory of quantum gravity will reproduce general relativity. Scientists at Texas A&M University in the US explore this question in a paper ...

The law, though, doesn’t say the first to arrive is the first to go; that’s an interpretation of the law. Instead, it says ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

Since its formulation in 1915, Albert Einstein's general relativity, which describes gravity as an effect of the curvature of space-time, has been largely validated by experiments. This theory has ...

General relativity is only one of the pillars of modern physics. The other is quantum mechanics, which describes what happens at the atomic and subatomic scale. Its modern incarnation, quantum field ...

In 1915, Albert Einstein published his pioneering theory of general relativity (GR) which beautifully describes the nature of gravity and its effect on large objects in space. Since then, this work ...

The theory of gravity proposed by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago can explain the dance of galaxies around one another just as well as it can model the motion of planets around the sun, according ...