The most surprising element is that a MOND-influenced theory of gravity—also co-authored by Milgrom—explains this unexpected ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped for.

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the ...

In July 1930, Rabindranath Tagore visited Albert Einstein in Caputh, near Berlin, at his summerhouse. The meeting of the two ...

A woman known as the 'next Albert Einstein' is so in demand that she once turned down a $1.1 million offer from a prestigious university.

The man was the smartest person on the planet. On his birthday, why not celebrate by quoting him and sounding brilliant?

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...