Many books about science are meant to be pleasure reading. Such books attempt to convey the wonder and fascination and excitement of science, and ideally some of the substance as well. After all, good ...

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 ...

I am looking for recommendations on books and/or other sources of structured information that one can use to get a better grasp of physics (and why not other science as well). To give some context of ...

Symmetry writer Mike Perricone takes us through a selection of this year’s new popular physics books. The year 2019 was a banner one for Albert Einstein: It included the first image of a black hole ...

A tour of 10 of this year’s popular science books delivers dark matter, black holes and a hefty dose of Einstein. This collection of 10 recently published books will keep you up-to-date on the new and ...

Cormac O’Raifeartaigh reviews The Perfect Theory: a Century of Geniuses and the Battle Over General Relativity by Pedro G Ferreira Fighting it out: an artist's impression of two black holes circling ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the core concepts needed to understand quantum physics, which is one of the two pillars of modern physics. The other, of course, is the theory of relativity, the full and ...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein reviews Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved by Marcia Bartusiak (CC BY-SA Alain r) While there have been ...

Since 2007, physicist Leonard Susskind has regularly delivered a lecture series called the Theoretical Minimum, on the foundations needed to study different areas of ...