Quantum field theory (QFT) is a physics framework that describes how particles and forces behave based on principles rooted ...

In 1919, a total solar eclipse allowed scientists to confirm Einstein’s theory of general relativity by observing how the sun’s gravity bent starlight. This discovery revolutionized physics and made ...

A groundbreaking quantum experiment conducted by MIT physicists has turned a major page in the long-standing debate between ...

When a German physicist returned from a health retreat 100 years ago, his ideas sparked a debate about reality, and gave rise ...

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go ...

Scientists demonstrate that quantum networks of clocks offer a new way to explore the interplay between quantum mechanics and curved space-time. Quantum networking is advancing rapidly across the ...

The imaginations of scientists and sci-fi lovers have just been stimulated with the news that a warp drive is being studied ...

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency to get more disordered. Now this idea might finally be testable ...

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

Records from Albert Einstein's final years are being published as a book around 20 years after their discovery, as ...

The mind-bending concept of time dilation results from a seemingly harmless assumption—that the speed of light is the same ...

It turns out that some of the historical facts you've held onto might be myths. Even today, U.S. classrooms sometimes ...