One hundred years ago this Wednesday, Albert Einstein gave the last of a series of presentations to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, which marks the official completion of his General Theory of ...

Editor's note: Scientists said today that after more than a half-century search, they have finally detected gravitational waves — the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Albert Einstein predicted ...

It stands among the most famous theories ever created, but the general theory of relativity did not spring into being with a single, astonishing paper like the special theory of relativity in 1905.

From smashing particles together to analyzing the properties of a supermassive black hole, much of physics research takes place far beyond the realm of our everyday experience. However, there is one ...

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