Gravity, as most people understand it, is the familiar force that pulls a falling apple toward Earth. But for astronomers and ...

Albert Einstein is best known for his breakthrough on the theory of relativity which revolutionized modern physics.

The science fiction film Project Hail Mary brilliantly uses authentic science to underscore the human drama and narrative tension of the story. Based on the novel by Andy Weir, the story revolves ...

While getting a manicure, Amy gazes out a window at strangers on a street below. “Who are they? Where are they from? Where are they going?” the art history major wonders aloud while gabbing with her ...

When black holes collide, the crash generates ripples in the fabric of spacetime—gravitational waves. These distortions travel far out into the universe, but by the time they reach Earth, they have ...

Scientists from Brazil are challenging the traditional view of universal constants, proposing that only one constant—time itself—is needed to measure relativistic spacetime. The research team argued ...

Mind-bending materials called quasicrystals have an orderly structure, but without a regularly repeating pattern. They’ve been found in meteorites and the debris from the first atomic bomb test.

In his classic science-fiction story “The New Accelerator,” published in 1901, H. G. Wells describes a drug that speeds up a person’s metabolism by a factor of 1,000. For the two protagonists who ...