While elite academia has always been greased by the philanthropy of the wealthy, students — like our professors and our institution — are not morally exempt from critically examining the sources and ...

For more than half a century, faster than light travel has lived in the realm of television scripts and paperback science fiction. Now a cluster of theoretical breakthroughs is forcing physicists to ...

One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or rather, the shortage thereof—in the now 6,000+ exoplanets confirmed to date.

From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

That piece, Einstein’s Light for Violin and Piano, was written by Adolphe a decade ago for the 100th anniversary of the ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works extremely well in its own domain: Quantum theory explains how atoms and ...

Ontology is concerned with the nature of reality. Given the complexity of the world within which nursing research is conducted, researchers using qualitative methodologies have had to grapple with ...

Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern philosophy insisted that truth is relative, that everyone has their own version of ...

A century after Michelson and Morley’s historic zero result helped launch Einstein’s special relativity, physicists are still searching for tiny cracks in one of its core principles: Lorentz ...

110 years ago today, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, which redefined the relationship between matter and gravity. Suddenly, our mysterious universe made a little more sense ...