String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

The messy reality of it is that all of these very smart people, including Isaac Newton, were talking to other people.” ...

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

The U.S. stock market continues to absorb its knocks, whether geopolitical, credit-linked or trade-induced, and sits at record highs. Any dips continue to be bought as investors bet on lower interest ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, long after his passing. Reading time: Reading time 5 minutes Albert ...

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Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. September 2025 marks ten years since the first direct detection of gravitational waves as predicted by Albert ...

We suggest ball lightning does not fall because of the gravitational force experienced by ball lightning. We show that this force is predominantly determined by the electrons in ball lightning that ...

He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on gravitational waves, which helped confirm Einstein’s general theory of relativity and how the universe began. By Dylan Loeb McClain Rainer Weiss, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time ...