One of the first steps toward becoming a scientist is discovering the difference between speed and velocity. To nonscientists, it’s usually a meaningless distinction. Fast is fast, slow is slow. But ...

If you want to understand gravity, it makes sense to study black holes. Nowhere else can you find so much gravity so conveniently compacted into such a relatively small space. In a way, in fact, black ...

Understanding salt tectonics and salt geometry has always been important to petroleum exploration in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Initially, prospects were drilled almost exclusively above salt. Today, ...

Neos and Lockheed Martin are building a unique gravity sensor, which is so advanced that it could find a 10-meter tall hill buried 1 km below the earth’s surface. The technology could find an armored ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The inflationary epoch that caused our universe to rapidly expand in its earliest moments may be ...

First of all, the prevailing quantum theory, quantum field theory, is fully relativistic from the onset. Relativity is “built into” the theory, so to speak. And it’s the only quantum theory that is ...

Scientists typically explain gravity in terms of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. In this model, objects in the universe cause the fabric of spacetime to warp around them, creating a ...