Gravitational distortions produced by distant galaxies show a slight—but notable—disagreement with Einstein's predictions.

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Hundreds, if not thousands, of people are being accused of antisemitism or fired from their jobs because they dare to ...

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Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...

Here’s how it works. General relativity is physicist Albert Einstein's understanding of how gravity affects the fabric of space-time. The theory, which Einstein published in 1915, expanded the ...

A two-day international conference commemorating the hundred years of Bose-Einstein statistics was curiously labelled as "A ...

Many of us can point to a teacher who directed our talents toward a career, a fulfilling hobby, a better way to understand ourselves.

A new graphic novel by a New Yorker cartoonist and Evanstonian transports us through time and space into Einstein's theory of relativity.