Gravity

Recent work has shown how “naked singularities” might defy the cosmic censorship conjecture

Using data from the OSIRIS-REx mission, scientists calculated slightly increased (but still low) odds the space rock will collide with our planet in the 2100s

Predictable transits and conjunctions belie a deeper story that includes our origins

Reality as we know it spans 63 orders of magnitude in scale, and now all of that is in one book

Martin Krzywinski’s latest “Pi Day” graphic re-imagines numerical digits as physical masses

A hundred years on, and the implications of Einstein's general relativity still surprise and delight

The moon, sun and some shenanigans between them brought a 14-meter tide to the coast of France
 

Multiple media outlets around the world covered a study published last week in the journal Nature Climate Change.* This study sought to explain why "believers" in climate change cannot get along with "skeptics" and how "believers" can argue the matter better to convince "skeptics." Seems like a fascinating dive into the sociology of science, until [...]

Cold rubidium atoms have provided a fresh approach to measuring Newton's big G

More to explore: Universe May Be Curved, Not Flat (Scientific American) http://www.s

Some might say there’s only one person who could do that. But it turns out it might not be so impossible. The real trick to it? An exotic locale.

Physicists have long sought to find one final theory that would unify all of physics. Instead they may have to settle for several