General Relativity
Juno Isn’t Exactly Where it’s Supposed To Be. The Flyby Anomaly is Back, But Why Does it Happen?
Using the Juno mission's orbit of Jupiter, a team of scientists has developed a possible explanation for the long-standing "flyby…
New Explanation for Dark Energy? Tiny Fluctuations of Time and Space
A new study by a team of researchers from UBC proposes a new vision of Dark Energy, where fluctuations in…
The 2016 Nobel Prize In Physics: It’s Complicated
This year's Nobel Prize in physics is expected to be be conferred on the three scientists who invented the process…
What is Time Dilation?
One of the strangest implications of Relativity is the concept of time dilation; how people moving at different speeds will…
A Star Is About To Go 2.5% The Speed Of Light Past A Black Hole
Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), researchers are about to observe the stars orbiting Sagittarius A*, which will test Einstein's…
Japanese 3D Galaxy Map Confirms Einstein Was One Smart Dude
Using the largest 3-D map of the Universe to date, an team of researchers has shown that Einstein's theory of…
Who was Stephen Hawking?
With countless contributions to the sciences, Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest living minds, and one of the greatest…
Who was Albert Einstein?
At the end of the millennium, Physics World magazine conducted a poll where they asked 100 of the world's leading…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 368: Searching for the Aether Wind: the Michelson–Morley Experiment
Waves move through a medium, like water or air. So it seemed logical to search for a medium that light…
Don’t Look At Black Holes Too Closely, They Might Disappear
We've come a long way in 13.8 billion years; but despite our impressively extensive understanding of the Universe, there are still…