In an article published in Communications Physics, researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Institute for ...

Universal wonder Despite a society that told Chanda Prescod-Weinstein she didn’t look like a physicist, she still managed to fall in love with the subject as a child. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Prazis ...

Special relativity, even though it's over 100 years old, is still one of the most puzzling and perplexing discoveries about the nature of the Universe itself. The (Newtonian) laws of physics that ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Einstein's theory of special relativity teaches us that time is relative. But what does it mean ...

Special relativity has changed the way we think about time and the order of events. Einstein famously showed that two events can look simultaneous to one observer but not to another. In fact, it’s ...

"It would be amazing if a simple rotation of the universe was the origin of dark energy." What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse?