About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted worldwide by ...

Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

There is a set of very special numbers, known as the fundamental constants of nature, that cannot be explained. Where do they come from? Finding out if they are, in fact, constant is the key to ...

As one of the most influential scholars of the cosmos, Wendy Freedman has made significant contributions to our understanding ...

Science News: Glenn Starkman, Distinguished University Professor and vice chair of the Department of Physics at the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed new research findings highlighting the ...

I was reminded recently that we seem to be trapped in a Catch-22 Universe. What makes it a Catch-22 is that no one is qualified to penetrate the mystery of the cosmos without skill in advanced ...

We all know space is cold, but some places are so extreme they make even Antarctica look comfortable. Scientists have […] ...

Melvin M. Vopson is affiliated with the University of Portsmouth and the Information Physics Institute. We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the ...