A record-breaking gravitational wave signal let scientists "listen" to a distant black hole merger and put Einstein's gravity to its toughest test yet.

Albert Einstein’s enduring message emphasises the power of persistent questioning and curiosity as the driving forces behind ...

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

Einstein’s legacy extends far beyond physics; it offers one of history’s most entertaining and enlightening reminders that ...

Compound interest, hailed by Albert Einstein as the eighth wonder of the world, fuels investment growth by earning interest ...

On January 14, 2025, a pair of black holes with nearly identical masses crashed together roughly 1.2 billion light-years away ...

Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

This tension between Being and Becoming was recorded in early Greek philosophy. Parmenides presented reality as timeless, ...

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

The age of AI-generated music and AI-aided fiction has arrived. Will “canned” art push musicians, writers, and others out of jobs?

We treat the seven-day week as a law of nature, yet France once tried ten-day weeks — and Bill Gates now imagines three.

Rolling coverage of the final day of the World Economic Forum in Davos ...