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

Scientists detect a 20-day wobble from a star-shredding black hole, confirming spacetime twisting predicted by Einstein.

An artist's impression depicts the accretion disc surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disc wobbles. In ...

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

In 1919, British astronomers Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson organised an expedition to Príncipe, a forested fleck of land ...

Time is not the same everywhere in space. On Mars, it flows on average 477 microseconds more each Earth day (24h) than on ...

Discover how Ramanujan's century-old pi formulas connect to modern cosmology and turbulent fluid physics in groundbreaking ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

For the first time, a group of physicists is arguing that a warp drive is not just a mathematical curiosity but something ...

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

This new Research Topic is dedicated to publishing high-quality scholarly papers on pivotal topics in the interactive field ...