In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

At first, there seems to be no known direct relationship between the expansion of the universe, the number of the gravitational constant, and the proximity of the infinitely variable genetic codes to ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger ...

This week marks the centenary of the French physicist Louis de Broglie's doctoral thesis, which later earned him a Nobel ...

The instrument is creating the largest map of the universe. In mapping, it revealed how large cosmic structures stick ...

On April 6th, 1922, Bergson and Einstein debated on the fundamental conceptions of time—is it objectively measurable or ...

I am not predisposed to write a treatise on how much faster the Big Three holidays arrive each year as one ages, but in Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein determined that time is relative -- in ...

At a singularity, the laws of physics as we know them suffer a complete breakdown. So such objects really shouldn’t exist.

A study by researchers from the Universities of Geneva and Toulouse, based on the Dark Energy Survey, has revealed slight ...

In a remarkable discovery, researchers have confirmed the existence of the "Einstein zig-zag," a rare cosmic phenomenon linked to gravitational lensing.

Spanish Scientists might have made it infinitely easier to spot space rocks heading for Earth — by calculating the ...

Albert Einstein’s prediction about how gravity behaves has been tested on a cosmic scale. Albert Einstein’s prediction about ...