On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Germany. Early in his life, he demonstrated passion for music and science; in ...

It is one of history’s more irritatingly on-brand coincidences that Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day, as though the universe itself decided that if it was going to manufacture the patron saint of ...

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

Scientists studying particle collisions at CERN have captured new evidence of how quarks move through the early universe’s primordial plasma.

Time has an arrow: It only ever seems to move in one direction. The future is always unknown to us, while the past forever remains locked and inaccessible. And yet, the vast majority of the laws of ...

The IAEA has published “Radiation Oncology Physics: a handbook for teachers and students” aiming at providing the minimum level of knowledge expected of a medical physicist specializing in radiation ...