Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

The brilliant physicist fought for the promise of a diverse, meritocratic America. We need his optimism today.

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

The final episode of fifth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things is out this week, and the concept of a wormhole ...

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

Astronomers detected a collision between two black holes in unprecedented detail early in 2025, offering the clearest view ...

A historical account of Einstein's 'Fernparallelismus' approach towards a unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism is given. In this theory, a space-time characterized by a ...

Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s formula for Pi can help with calculating black holes, studying percolation, or investigating turbulence.

On Dec. 3, former Swarthmore math professor Eduard “Teddy” Einstein was tragically killed after being struck by a car while riding his bicycle in Upper Darby, PA. He was 38. His death was announced to ...

The world may seem orderly, but randomness and chaos shape everything in the universe, from enormous galaxies all the way down to subatomic particles. Take a chilly window sheeting over with ice: even ...