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Let's turn the sun into a telescope. In fact, we don't have to do any work—we just have to be in the right spot.
There's no question that Albert Einstein was one of the greatest minds of his or any generation, but there was one problem he ...
It may be the world’s most famous equation, but what does E=mc2 actually mean? Shortly after completing his paper on special relativity, in 1905, Einstein realized his equations applied to more ...
Machine learning helped show how harnessing the weird effects of Einstein’s special relativity could enable a new kind of ...
It is called a black hole, because it acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. According to the theory of ...
During the latter part of the 20th century, string theory was put forward as a unifying theory of physics foundations. String ...
On Monday, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the ACES set of atomic clocks. It will be docked to the International ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched one of its most precise science experiments to date — the Atomic Clock Ensemble ...
The European Space Agency has launched two atomic clocks on a SpaceX rocket to the ISS to test Einstein's theory of ...
Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.