From smashing particles together to analyzing the properties of a supermassive black hole, much of physics research takes place far beyond the realm of our everyday experience. However, there is one ...

Albert Einstein is unquestionably one of the greatest scientists to ever live. He’s responsible for likely the most well-known equation of all time, and decades after his death, his work is still a ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uu7jA8EHi_0] Understanding relativity is hard but playing games is easy. What’s a physicist to do ...

I HAVE read with great interest the leading article on “The Understanding of Relativity”, contributed by H. D. to NATURE of Nov. 3. I do not doubt Einstein's' work. His conclusions have been tested ...

The theory of relativity describes two connected scientific theories developed by the physicist Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity. Collectively, relativity is the idea the ...

The mysteries surrounding the origins of the universe have long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. New research, published in the Living Reviews in Relativity, introduces an innovative ...