Everything around us, from atoms and molecules to planets and galaxies, is governed by two extraordinarily successful ...

Large masses – such as a galaxy – curve space-time. Objects move along a geodesic. If we take into account that space-time itself has quantum properties, deviations arise (dashed line vs. solid line).

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Gravity, the force that attracts objects toward each other, is currently framed by Albert Einstein's theory of general ...

Gravity could be a manifestation of thermodynamics, the science of heat and energy. This is the idea explored by researchers ...

It isn’t often that physics produces news that diverts the mainstream media from politics, crime and sports. But, now, in the space of four years’ time, physicists have twice elevated the intellectual ...

Alexander Polyakov, a theoretical physicist now at Princeton University, caught a glimpse of the future of quantum theory in 1981. A range of mysteries, from the wiggling of strings to the binding of ...

Nobody really understands gravity. We know what it does. We have equations for it, and we're constantly correcting GPS ...