Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth. Of the more ...

© H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), K. Mitman (Cornell University) A year ago, almost to the day, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA ...

The new offerings reflect a fundamental shift in how professionals build skills in an AI-driven economy—moving beyond traditional technical training to applied AI education designed for every role, ...

There’s an adage coined by [Ian Betteridge] that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word “No”. However, Lorentz invariance – the theory that the same rules of physics apply ...

Understand Einstein’s General Relativity with a clear and easy-to-follow explanation that breaks down complex ideas like spacetime, gravity, and curvature in simple terms. This video uses intuitive ...

110 years ago today, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, which redefined the relationship between matter and gravity. Suddenly, our mysterious universe made a little more sense ...

The earliest test of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity took place just four years after he published it. During the May 29, 1919, total solar eclipse, British astronomer Sir Arthur ...

Amelia F. Barnum ’28, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Isabel C. Hogben ’29, a Crimson Editorial comper, lives in Greenough Hall. When it comes to Women ...

In this video, we explore Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, focusing on his insights into gravity and acceleration. Initially ridiculed, Einstein developed key concepts after observing a ...

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window into the universe’s most extreme events. These collisions not only revealed ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology turned down a Trump administration deal that would have given it benefits from the government if it conformed to Republican policy priorities. MIT was one of ...