A series that introduces the differences between the "widely known image" and the "actual person" by comparing multiple materials.The second installment is Albert Einstein.Explosive white hair. The ...

The Theory of Relativity and the Nihon ShokiThe mystery of time as depicted by the Japanese 1,300 years ago.If a time machine ...

Einstein's theory of general relativity describes gravity as the bending of spacetime, a mathematical model that combines ...

Time travel to the future is possible, notes Neil deGrasse Tyson. Explore evidence, practical limits, and why the past ...

This is a guest post by Francesco Maggi. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using ...

The first measurement of a chemical bond in a superheavy element compound shows that relativistic effects weaken the seaborgium-carbonyl bond, inverting the trend seen in lighter homologs.

A timelines of the life and career of Albert Einstein, including his theories of special and general relativity.

From violent stellar mergers and rapid neutron capture to Earth's hidden metallic core and mineable deposits, discover how ...

Curious non-scientists and intro-physics students should care because Hawking maps, without equations, how cosmology moved from a static centered sky to an expanding cosmos whose origin and black ...

Besides building crewed outposts at the lunar south pole, where else should astronauts go on the Moon? An authoritative new ...

Carl Sagan was a huge influence on me, first through Cosmos. His idea was that knowledge does not exist in separate silos.

For the first time ever, a spacecraft will travel all the way to the Mars system and return. But first, it has to get through the launch ...