Bob Benjamin is an ORHS Class of 1983 alumnus who has tirelessly worked to figure out what the Milky Way looks like.

There are few things more pleasing to your average mathematician than when a result surprises you. Take e, for example – a ...

110 years ago today, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, which redefined the relationship between matter and gravity. Suddenly, our mysterious universe made a little more sense ...

The U.S. stock market continues to absorb its knocks, whether geopolitical, credit-linked or trade-induced, and sits at record highs. Any dips continue to be bought as investors bet on lower interest ...

While SpaceX’s Falcon family continues to demonstrate reliable reuse of its first stages and fairings, other launch providers are actively developing competitors. One such rocket in work is Relativity ...

The internet is full of people claiming to uncover conspiracies in politics and business. During the pandemic, public health experts and pharmaceutical companies became popular targets. Now an ...

A research team proposes utilizing numerical relativity, a computational technique for solving Einstein's equations in high-gravity environments, to investigate the universe's origin. The approach ...

A party’s on at Synergy, but the partygoers aren’t any ordinary attendees. In fact, most of them are physics majors. This “phrave,” or physics rave, was organized by the Stanford University Physics ...

I've been playing video games almost my entire life, with a particular preference for RPGs, Strategy Games, and 3D Platformers. When I'm not writing or gaming, I usually work on my own game projects ...

For the first time, physicists have demonstrated a phenomenon known as the Terrell-Penrose effect, which causes an object moving close to the speed of light to warp before our eyes. The new findings, ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched one of its most precise science experiments to date — the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES)—to the International Space Station (ISS). This is no ...