Three intertwined time directions may underpin everything, turning space into mere “paint on the canvas” and pushing physics ...

Credit: Joel Robine/AFP via Getty. Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat was a giant of the mathematical study of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.Her theorem establishing the existence of ...

A century ago, Einstein believed the universe was static. Modern astronomy reveals it is expanding in all directions with no ...

The index alone is a bibliophile’s dream. Literature professor Wilson has done a remarkable job recreating the story of the ...

Einstein and a theory of disinformation ... “If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts. – Albert Einstein.” There was one problem: Einstein never said that.

Physical equations enable us to predict the future, but singularities imply a lack of predictability; theory just breaks down ...

A young Albert Einstein, chafing under the rigid Prussian education at Munich's Luitpold Gymnasium, chose intellectual freedom over conformity. Discontent with rote learning and blind obedience ...

Earlier this year, new research suggested a potential solution to one of the most troubling aspects of modern physics — that ...

In 1904, Albert Einstein, then an obscure young man of 25, could be seen daily in the late afternoon wheeling a baby carriage on the streets of Bern, Switzerland, halting now and then, unmindful ...

A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are ...

On May 29, 1919, a total solar eclipse helped to prove Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Einstein's theory suggested that gravity could bend light by curving the fabric of spacetime.

From four-dimensional hexagons to the mind-bending amplituhedron, geometrical shapes are wilder than we learn at school - and ...