The theory of special relativity is rife with counterintuitive and surprising effects, the most famous of which are length ...

PacBio is now accepting orders for Vega systems, which it plans to begin shipping in the first quarter of 2025. Vega will be on display at PacBio’s booth at the American Society of Human Genetics ...

Patchen Barss’s The Impossible Man is a warts-and-all portrait of Roger Penrose, his Nobel Prize-winning work and his fraught ...

A new graphic novel by a New Yorker cartoonist and Evanstonian transports us through time and space into Einstein's theory of relativity.

Here’s how it works. General relativity is physicist Albert Einstein's understanding of how gravity affects the fabric of space-time. The theory, which Einstein published in 1915, expanded the ...

Studying Wikipedia browsing habits to learn how people learn Date: October 25, 2024 Source: University of Pennsylvania Summary: A collaborative team of researchers led by Dale Zhou, who did his Ph ...

However, the German Wikipedia site and others reveal stories of her heroism ... To meet a growing need, she expanded the school, using Albert Einstein’s summer villa next door after he immigrated to ...

ON 7 November 1867, Marya Salomea Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire. She was the youngest of five children, and became known as “Manya” by her family. She was a ...

The Man Who Told the Truth" is the first biography of the legendary writer and a revealing portrait of a complex newsman. I spoke recently to author Richard Esposito. Welcome to the "News Hour." ...

Disc golf is a sport growing in popularity, but there hasn't been much research into the best techniques—until now. Researcher Zachary Lindsey and his team studied professional and amateur disc ...

Exchanges like this that reveal moments of despair and vulnerability by the seemingly eternally optimistic Lewis are partly what makes Greenberg’s biography of the civil rights icon so remarkable.