From Fundamental Concepts to Dynamical Mechanisms, by Wolfgang Bietenholz and Uwe-Jens Wiese, Cambridge University Press.

Josh Clark and Judy Long get to the bottom of how a state historically limited in resources can have such scholarship and ...

Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a lot we don't know, according to Ulf Danielsson ...

Leiden, a city whose university is often called the Oxford of the Netherlands, features museums, gardens, murals and plenty ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With next-generation telescopes, they hope to spot telltale signs of alternative physics ...

In Interstellar, Miller’s planet orbits close to the black hole Gargantua, where gravity is so strong that time runs much slower. This is gravitational time dilation, a prediction of Einstein’s ...

The U.S. stock market continues to absorb its knocks, whether geopolitical, credit-linked or trade-induced, and sits at record highs. Any dips continue to be bought as investors bet on lower interest ...

The messy reality of it is that all of these very smart people, including Isaac Newton, were talking to other people.” ...

The technology that has helped propel the simulation theory may be new, but the questions it explores are ancient.

Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Chen-ning Yang died in Beijing on Saturday, weeks after marking his 103rd birthday. Yang died of illness, according to state news agency Xinhua. No details ...