Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...

A dark point inside a beam of light should not be much of a traveler. Yet in a new experiment, some of those points appeared ...

Can darkness really travel faster than light? A surprising new physics experiment suggests it can—at least in a very unusual ...

New claims challenge inconsistencies in one of the foundational principles of physics. Albert Einstein postulated in his 1905 ...

The proposed BMV experiment could test whether gravity is quantum, a breakthrough that may lead to quantum computers and ...

Sophia Varughese has two passions: astrophysics and music. Her senior thesis is a scholarly look at black holes and ...

Assistant Professor Haocun Yu is something of a scientific diplomat. In a recent Physical Review Letters publication, she and ...

One hundred years ago today, in the wake of the first World War, a British astronomer watched a solar eclipse for signs that a German physicist may have been right about warps in the universe. The ...

You've probably heard this sort of claim before: Einstein made a prediction, usually with general relativity, and we're just now getting around to testing it. It's a slightly misleading idea, since ...

Einstein’s theory of relativity has explained the universe for more than a century. But under certain conditions, cracks begin to appear. Physicists have identified a gap Einstein never had the tools ...