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

Nearly a century after Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr turned a technical disagreement into a philosophical duel, a new ...

The research that leads to a Nobel Prize in physics can sometimes be a little obscure. In 1990, for example, three scientists got the nod “for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic ...

'No understanding of or interest in modern physics': Einstein (pictured) was criticised by Oppenheimer - Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Viewers of Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-hoovering ...

Einstein’s theory of gravity — general relativity — has been very successful for more than a century. However, it has theoretical shortcomings. This is not surprising: the theory predicts its own ...

Albert Einstein’s name has become shorthand for genius in theoretical physics. We tend to picture him scribbling equations about space and time, not tinkering in a workshop. Yet tucked alongside his ...

Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...

November 1919: Members of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society convened in London to discuss the results of observations of a recent solar eclipse. They were searching for something ...