Nicknamed the father of modern physics for relativity, Albert Einstein revolutionized science. Quote of the day by Einstein ...

Wormholes have long served as science fiction’s favorite shortcut through the cosmos, but a growing body of theoretical physics research suggests they will never function as tunnels. That does not ...

“For the last 20 years, people believed that the cosmological constant is positive, and the universe will expand forever,” says Tye, a professor emeritus at Cornell. A positive constant acts like a ...

They ask us to believe, for example, that the world we experience is fundamentally divided from the subatomic realm it’s built from. Or that there is a wild proliferation of parallel universes, or ...

Some of history’s greatest scientific minds didn’t dismiss God, they wrestled with the idea in ways that may challenge modern assumptions. What they discovered goes deeper than equations and beyond ...

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuclear physics for decades ...

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The total energy of the ball consists of its potential energy (related to position) plus its kinetic energy (related to motion). To zero out both components, you would have to give a precise value to ...

Arivaca resident Albert Gaxiola was sentenced Monday morning to two life terms, one without the possibility of release, in the June 2009 deaths of a 9-year-old girl and her father. Gaxiola, 44, was ...

Victoria Albert is a reporter on The Wall Street Journal’s breaking news desk in New York. Her reporting often focuses on immigration, though she also covers crime and natural disasters. She was ...