On this day, March 14, the scientific world not only commemorates one of the most significant physicists of the 20th and early 21st centuries, but also an extraordinary personality: Stephen Hawking.

On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein, who would revolutionize physics and the human understanding of the universe, was born in ...

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

The 19th-century German toy pieces, made with quartz sand, chalk and linseed oil, allowed kids to create realistic structures ...

In 1919, a total solar eclipse gave the only chance to test Einstein’s groundbreaking General Relativity theory. This video ...

The light did not fade the way it was supposed to. After blazing into view about a billion light-years from Earth, the ...

A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples ...

Against this backdrop, a new large-scale research work devoted to the analysis of the fundamental structure of modern physics has been published. Researcher Sergey G. Kolesnyak has presented a ...

The conceptual architecture of black holes has undergone a radical transformation between 2024 and 2026, transitioning from the classical bottomless pits of general relativity to the intricate ...

Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...