Do top quarks, nature's heaviest elementary particle, obey Einstein's rules at all times of day and night? Scientists at the ...

A massive American web of orbiting missile interceptors could in theory protect the U.S. from an all-out Russian nuclear ...

Is it possible to tile a surface with a single shape in such a way that the pattern never repeats itself? In 2022, a mathematical solution to this 'Einstein problem' was discovered for the first time.

Chien-Shiung Wu's trailblazing but largely forgotten achievement features in a recent profile of the influential physicist Pioneering female Chinese-American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, who worked with ...

Astronomers have found an incredibly rare complete 'Einstein ring' - predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.

Quantum mechanics — the most successful and important theory in modern physics ... in works by physicists Max Planck in 1900 and Albert Einstein in 1905. They showed that certain properties ...

The paper, which was based on Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity published in 1917, included the possibility that the universe is expanding. In 1927, Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître, ...

Humanity is closer to destroying itself, according to atomic scientists who revealed on Tuesday that the famous “Doomsday Clock” was set to 89 seconds to midnight — the closest it has ever been.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded by a group ... which was first established by Albert Einstein in December 1948, with J. Robert Oppenheimer as its first chair.