Coin tosses, randomness, and decision-making in films and literature explored through statistics and probability by a professor.

As telescopes peer into the universe, they sometimes see quirks of nature that magnify faraway objects. These eight galaxies recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear stretched, ...

The first violin Albert Einstein bought for himself which he hid from the Nazis has today sold for nearly £1.1million. The genius mathematician acquired the instrument shortly before leaving Munich to ...

In August 1974, when the Sterrewacht in Leiden moved from the buildings which it had occupied since 1861, its archives moved with it. During the time of the removal Professor van de Hulst received a ...

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions. Scientists tracked the complete cosmic collision, confirming that black ...

The final fee will be over £1m once commission is added A violin that once belonged to one of history's best known scientists has sold at auction for £860,000. The 1894 Zunterer violin is believed to ...

Although Albert Einstein is best-known as a theoretical physicist, he also spent much of his life grappling with the problem of war. In 1914, shortly after he moved to Berlin to serve as director of ...

The violin was sold for almost three times its asking price, and could be the highest sale price for a violin that did not previously belong to a concert violinist. Albert Einstein’s first violin that ...

Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites continuously beam down ultra-precise timestamps, each message essentially saying, "It was 12:00:00.000001 when I sent this." ...

A new study shows glioblastoma isn’t confined to the brain—it erodes the skull and hijacks the immune system within skull marrow. The cancer opens channels that let inflammatory cells enter the brain, ...

Dr Paul Wingfield never imagined that attending his brother-in-law's wake would lead him to authenticate a violin once owned by Albert Einstein. "I just set out to write this musical about Einstein," ...

Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s ...