Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.

For those who watch gravitational waves roll in from the universe, GW250114 is a big one. It's the clearest gravitational wave signal from a binary black hole merger to date, and it gives researchers ...

Time is a straightforward concept - or is it? The passing of minutes and years isn't as easy to explain as many assume.

Vladimir Fock occupies a distinctive place in the history of twentieth-century science, not only for his profound ...

If the universe was a soundtrack, we have been humming it our whole life. Every atom in our body, every star in the sky, every beam of light is part of a piece of music that never stops playing.

In this last part of our series on recently digitized books from the Wenner Collection, we are focusing on works that showcase the reception and legacies of physicists and astrophysicists in the 20th ...