On this day in 1905 Albert Einstein published his paper introducing special relativity in a German physics journal. Entitled ...

The idea of a particle that races faster than light has long fascinated physicists. Known as the tachyon, it was originally ...

Hitler unleashed the Night of the Long Knives, a ruthless purge that eliminated internal threats, silenced rivals and secured ...

John Lees Barclay James Harvest have announced they will release a new studio album, Relativity, through Esoteric ...

There may be an infinite amount of energy locked in the vacuum of space-time. So could we ever harness this energy for ...

Several of America's billionaires have founded schools, to varying degrees of success. Here are some of the biggest projects.

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on June 30. Check what happened ...

From four-dimensional hexagons to the mind-bending amplituhedron, geometrical shapes are wilder than we learn at school - and ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

According to scientists at the University of Toronto, “negative time”, which was previously considered an illusion, has ...

The “Bell test” was devised in the 1960s to uncover what’s going on in the quantum world, but it continues to be relevant today, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan ...

The special relativity theory showed that velocity was purely relative, and from one point of view the same should be true of acceleration, yet physics seemed to show evidence to the contrary.