Physicists have spent decades trying to reconcile two very different theories. But is a winner about to emerge – and transform our understanding of everything from time to gravity? It is the biggest ...

New impressions A visualization of a curved space–time “sea” from the general-relativity simulations carried out by the authors.(Courtesy: James Mertens) From the Genesis story in the Old Testament to ...

Compared with other books on history of science, Peter Galison’s current offering has drawn a lot of attention in the general press. The New York Times, for example, ran a glowing two-page feature ...

An international collaboration of scientists has produced the biggest and most detailed look yet at the most elusive substance in the universe. Dark matter accounts for about 80 percent of everything ...

Introduced to the world in 1915, Einstein's general theory of relativity radically changed the Newtonian model of gravity. General relativity introduced the concept of mass warping the very fabric of ...

When a researcher asked Nobel Prize winning physicists and other scientists whether there was any new physics left to discover, this is what they said. The story has been told many times. At the ...

There was a lot riding on Einstein winning a Nobel prize. Beyond his academic reputation, and that of the Nobel Institute for recognising greatness, the wellbeing of his former wife and their two sons ...