This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

Time travel is still very much science fiction, at least to us laymens.. But in the world of physics that’s not the case.

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

The rapid acceleration of the universe’s expansion continues to challenge our understanding of fundamental physics. Why the ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly observed a spinning black hole bending space and time, as predicted in Albert ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Astronomers have seen spacetime itself wobble near a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, revealed during a star’s destruction, confirms a major prediction of Einstein’s theory of ...

Contemporary physics has learned to describe the universe with unprecedented precision. Yet when it tries to say what time is, it stumbles again and ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

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