Humanity has achieved remarkable feats, yet 95% of the universe remains invisible and unexplained. Our theories, general ...

Kellogg Stelle was a professor of physics at Imperial College London for decades until his death last month. In 1977, he developed a particle theory of gravity that’s renormalizable, but the theory’s ...

Einstein’s theory of relativity reveals that time is not fixed — it bends, stretches, and slows depending on speed and ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

Black holes, regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are intriguing and extensively ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

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

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

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An international team, spearheaded by Prof. Luciano Rezzolla at the Goethe-Universität, has invented a novel approach to ...

Albert Einstein made important scientific contributions to humanity, but the kitchen appliance he helped design wasn't one of ...

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