To most of us, time feels as solid as the phone alarm that drags us out of bed or the calendar that fills up faster than we would like. Yet a growing group of physicists and philosophers now argue ...

Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article ...

For more than a century, Einstein’s relativity has set a hard speed limit for the universe, with light as the ultimate ...

Time is a straightforward concept - or is it? The passing of minutes and years isn't as easy to explain as many assume.

Vladimir Fock occupies a distinctive place in the history of twentieth-century science, not only for his profound ...

Before a beginners’ physics class at St. Louis’ Washington University, Assistant Professor Edward Lambe plugged in an electric device that shot pennies at a metal disk a few feet away. The pennies ...

In this last part of our series on recently digitized books from the Wenner Collection, we are focusing on works that showcase the reception and legacies of physicists and astrophysicists in the 20th ...