The blackboard, used by the physicist during a University of Nottingham guest lecture, is said to be one of only three ...

Physics is stuck — and needs another Einstein to revolutionize it, physicist Avi Loeb says Harvard professor Avi Loeb says the potential for a great mind to revolutionize physics is greater than ...

Einstein became the world's most iconic scientist seemingly overnight. Here’s how the physicist rose to fame and what it tells us about how science unfolds in the public eye.

According to Newtonian physics, the gravitational attraction between two masses is proportional to the inverse of the square ...

Physicist who spearheaded the construction of the LIGO observatory to detect Einstein’s predicted ripples in space-time ...

Einstein's words in the letters demonstrate his fraught relationship with quantum physics, or the theories that describe the world of the very small (atoms and the subatomic particles inside them).

Most of the particle-physics community believes, for example, that string theory provides the appropriate framework for realizing Einstein’s dream. Here, fascinating generalizations of Kaluza and ...

When a German physicist returned from a health retreat 100 years ago, his ideas sparked a debate about reality, and gave rise ...

In a newly discovered letter written by Albert Einstein, the renowned physicist suggested there could be a link between the migrations of birds and "unknown" physical processes.

The American Physical Society recognized University of Pittsburgh Professor Emeritus of physics and astronomy Ezra T. Newman with the 2011 Einstein Prize for his 60-year career in general ...