What is the purpose of light? How does light work? Why does light exist? This video explores the longstanding debate over ...

About 60 years ago, the original Star Trek series featured a technology called a “warp drive,” which allowed space travel at speeds much faster than light. Theoretical physicist and philosopher Albert ...

The law, though, doesn’t say the first to arrive is the first to go; that’s an interpretation of the law. Instead, it says ...

Confining and rotating extremely cold atoms or molecules within atomic “Ferris wheels” made from laser light could test ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

Perhaps the most famous moustache in science, Albert Einstein’s facial hair was a chevron-style moustache: full, bushy, ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

Researcher whose contribution to science was described as ‘close to Einstein’ specialised in the study of subatomic particles ...

Learn more about black holes and what causes them to ring. A massive new study adds evidence to theories by Einstein, Hawking ...

Albert Einstein left his first violin behind as he escaped Nazi Germany. Last week, it became the most expensive instrument ...

A violin owned by Albert Einstein that was authenticated by a University of Cambridge academic has fetched £860,000 at ...

Albert Einstein is more than just a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who developed the theory of relativity and formula E=mc2.