Since you’re reading a popular science website, there’s a very high chance you’ve heard of the twin paradox, but also that ...

Thinking at cosmic and subatomic scales requires plenty of math—or some visual metaphors.

The Earth’s crust is constantly rewritten by volcanoes, erosion, and plate tectonics. New crust is being created while old ...

Well, around a similar time, the American Physical Society (APS) invited researchers and science enthusiasts to chime in on ...

If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by ...

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as the ...

The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João Magueijo has always ...

Instead of tackling black holes head-on, researchers translated Hawking radiation into the language of particle physics using ...

A link between particle physics and gravity equations, called the double copy, applies to Hawking radiation, creating a new ...

You probably know that Einstein changed the face of physics with his theory of relativity in his twenties. What you may not ...