I’m very glad that I’m not a particle physicist. In the excitement of the LHC starting up, breaking, starting up again, performing beautifully, and finding the Higgs Boson, we seem to forget that ...

Ongoing search: Frank Close examines the history of evolving 'theories of everything'. (Courtesy: Harald Ritsch/Science Photo) The term “theory of everything” was a common turn of phrase among ...

What did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize for? Hearty congratulations if you said the photoelectric effect. Most people assume he won for his theory of general relativity, and for good reason. In a ...

Gravitational waves were predicted in Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity in 1916. Ian Sample meets Prof Pedro Ferreira to discuss the extraordinary and continuing influence of the theory ...