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“Relativity”

Jun 3, 2013 01:24 PM ET // Irene Klotz
Scientists looking for planets around the star nearest to the solar system will soon get a helping hand from Mother Nature. Continue reading →
May 14, 2013 04:02 AM ET // Ian O'Neill
An exoplanet has been discovered by Kepler using a strange quirk of relativity. Continue reading →
Apr 12, 2013 07:34 PM ET // Larry O'Hanlon
The Iranians may have a time machine. This is why you probably shouldn't be worried. ->
Apr 4, 2013 01:36 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
The Kepler space telescope's prime objective is to hunt for small worlds orbiting distant stars, but that doesn't mean it's not going to detect some extreme relativistic phenomena along the way. ->
Oct 27, 2010 04:59 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
Do you ever get those days when you question reality? Fermilab is building a machine that may prove that "reality" is only a holographic projection from the outermost boundary of the Universe.
Apr 14, 2011 06:20 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
Using a new visualization tool, the extreme nature of spacetime surrounding colliding black holes has been modeled.
Mar 7, 2011 02:47 PM ET // Jennifer Ouellette
The "Einsteinturm" can be found in the German town of Potsdam, a building that should really be in your physics building tour guide.
Feb 22, 2012 06:03 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
A dodgy connection between a GPS unit and atomic clock may be the real reason neutrinos appeared to travel at superluminal speeds.
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