One such mystery, described in a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concerns circumbinary exoplanets—or ...
Anyone who has conducted document review knows the frustration of keyword search. You craft what seems like a comprehensive list of terms, run ...
A new paper by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) staff details how using popular culture could effectively teach science, ...
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 ...
For more than a century, Einstein’s relativity has set a hard speed limit for the universe, with light as the ultimate ...
This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...
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Spinoza's God

Albert Einstein once spoke of his belief in Spinoza's God. This God reveals Himself in the orderly harmony of existence. It is not a God concerned with human actions. Baruch Spinoza, of Portuguese ...
In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a ...
Astronomy isn't just about gazing at stars, it's about understanding the invisible forces that govern everything from planetary motion to the expansion of the universe. Behind every orbit, black hole, ...
In the strange corner of modern physics where spacetime itself becomes the engine, the old rule that nothing can outrun light ...
Cosmic strings and Einstein’s relativity raise the theoretical possibility of time travel within modern physics.
A new paper by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) staff details how using popular culture could effectively teach science, ...