The fabric of space and time is not exempt from the effects of gravity. Plop in a mass and space-time curves around it, not dissimilar to what happens when you put a bowling ball on a trampoline. This ...

Physicists have developed a novel approach to solving one of the most persistent problems in theoretical physics: uniting gravity with the quantum world. In a recent paper published in the journal ...

For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Scientists have attempted to disprove Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity for the better part of a century. After testing and confirming Einstein’s prediction in 2002 that ...

Researcher whose contribution to science was described as ‘close to Einstein’ specialised in the study of subatomic particles.

He and a colleague created a sensation in 1956 by proposing that one of the four forces of nature might violate a law of ...

A team of Chinese physicists have clocked the speed of spooky action at a distance -- the seemingly instantaneous interaction between entangled quantum particles -- at more than four orders of ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic ...

There was more to Albert Einstein than his intellect. “Einstein: A Stage Portrait,” by Willard Sims, explores the lesser-known personal side of the genius. Los Alamos native and formally-trained actor ...

Chen Ning Yang was born in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, in 1922. In the 1940s, he went to the United States to pursue ...