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

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

In August 1974, when the Sterrewacht in Leiden moved from the buildings which it had occupied since 1861, its archives moved with it. During the time of the removal Professor van de Hulst received a ...

A rare book on Mahatma Gandhi, published on his 75th birthday on October 2, 1944, has been discovered in an antique collector’s collection at Manjeri in Malappuram district of Kerala. The book, titled ...

Could the secrets of Albert Einstein’s brain – preserved since his death in 1955 – be unlocked by modern Chinese technology? A new technique developed by Chinese scientists has shown potential in ...

Albert Einstein’s last words and the story behind them. Tropical Storm Melissa spaghetti models show chances of striking Florida ‘Unfit to Serve’: Pentagon Targets Kirk Critics Man gropes, attacks ...

Oftentimes, we think of space as an endless, mostly empty vacuum, a silent backdrop where planets, stars, and galaxies play out their dance. We also think of time as something separate, a steady ...

Studying black holes is immensely difficult, but with gravitational wave detection, astrophysicists do have a way to directly analyze these mysterious objects. A new study details the “clearest ...

Albert Einstein wasn’t just the scientific whiz behind a famous mathematical equation. He also loved music and fought for civil rights, long before it was a movement. Photograph by PictureLux/The ...

An eon ago, when only microbes dwelled on Earth, a pair of black holes some 1.3 billion light-years beyond the solar system spiraled toward each other until they crashed. The two became one big black ...