In a bold step toward solving one of science’s most puzzling problems, researchers have proposed a new way to bring gravity ...

Get a sneak peek at Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush and newcomer Johnny Flynn as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert ... by Einstein's general relativity: Dark matter's gravity wrinkles ...

The other is Albert Einstein ... problem that Newton confronted and solved (almost). Einstein begins his work with one crucial insight: gravity and acceleration are equivalent, two facets of ...

On January 29, 1931, the world's premier physicist, Albert Einstein ... in the grip of gravity, the large-scale force that shapes the universe. Ten years later, in 1915, Einstein made up for ...

Albert Einstein predicted them in 1916 as part of his general theory of relativity. A US$1.1 billion set of instruments detected such a wave last September from a distant collision of two black ...

New research challenges the long-accepted notion of singularities in black holes — the point where physics allegedly breaks ...

On 25 November 1915, Albert Einstein presented his general ... circumstances’ – so not including the effect of gravity. It took Einstein 10 years to make the theory work for gravity too ...

Scientists announced they have directly detected gravitational waves for the first time, verifying an unproven portion of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz reports.

Albert Einstein ... being hauled upwards. Gravity's tug and upward acceleration in zero gravity both pull you to the floor. The physics of both events is the same, Einstein decided, based on ...

In 1919, the Eddington experiment – a demonstration proving that gravity ... his life, Albert Einstein remained committed to strong ideals of social justice, democracy, and basic human dignity.