Why can't anything travel faster than the speed of light? Do black holes really suck? And why is the universe expanding? These are just a few of the questions author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett ...

On the eve of the recent major snowstorm, students, faculty, and staff gathered in the Nixon Lounge of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library to listen to Thomas W. Baumgarte, William R. Kenan Professor of ...

Do kids really need to know about relativity? After all, most fourth graders are not going to have to explain the bending of space or the photoelectric test on their standardized tests. And isn't ...

Einstein showed that time and space are not fixed entities, as they seem to us, but are actually changeable. As Brian Greene explains, it's all based on an observer's state of motion compared to that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Liz Pichon takes a break from her multimillion-selling Tom Gates series to bring us Shoe Wars (Scholastic, ...