BOULDER- Black holes, time travel and E= mc^2. They are all related to Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. How many of us, though, can actually explain any of it? This year, Einstein's theory ...

“Black holes don’t suck,” says astrophysicist Bennett (Life in the Universe); in fact, their exotic nature is the perfect way to explore relativity. The special theory of relativity, proposed by ...

Kazuya Koyama receives funding from the Science Technology and Facilities Council. Levon Pogosian receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Simon Fraser ...

Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...

“The chief attraction of the theory lies in its logical completeness,” wrote Albert Einstein after publishing his general theory of relativity in 1915. “If a single one of the conclusions drawn from ...

When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of his previous research on human DNA to conceive of the image of a double ...

Vlatko Vedral has had funding from The Templeton and the Moore Foundations. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has had funding from the NSF, DoE, NASA, FQxI and Heising-Simons Foundation. She is a member of the ...