Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Albert Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to theoretical physics and his discovery of ...

Gravitational physics has become a truly experimental science as tests of the special and general theories of relativity reach new levels of precision Right on time When I was a first-term graduate ...

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Rogue black holes kicked from their galactic lairs are among the surprising predictions made by physicists using powerful computers to solve Einstein's equations of general relativity. David Appell ...

Long and winding road: The Juice space probe taking the long way to Jupiter and its moons - Copyright NASA/AFP/File NASA Long and winding road: The Juice space probe ...

Quantum theory and general relativity have long described the universe with incompatible languages, one speaking in ...

Researchers at TU Wien have integrated quantum physics with general relativity, revealing significant departures from ...

Physicists have chased a unified description of nature for more than a century, yet quantum theory and gravity have ...