Bill Bryson bags book prize
Best-selling travel writer scoops leading prize for science books
Accelerating universe will limit technology
Cosmological considerations will place universal limits on computation
Read article: Gravity Probe B takes off
Gravity Probe B takes off
Experiment will check two untested predictions of general relativity
Displays scoop Descartes prize
Two teams share this year's €1m Descartes prize
Read article: A new spin on black holes
A new spin on black holes
The black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is rotating
Read article: General relativity passes Cassini test
General relativity passes Cassini test
Einstein is still right
Read article: VIRGO takes off
VIRGO takes off
European gravitational-wave detector is officially opened
Celebrating Einstein with dance
New work will mark the centenary of Einstein's brilliant year
Read article: Supermassive black hole binary might lurk in nearby galaxy
Supermassive black hole binary might lurk in nearby galaxy
Researchers in Japan claim to have found evidence for a pair of supermassive black holes
No sign yet of extra dimensions
Physicists have searched for new forces predicted by string theory to exist in extra dimensions, but found nothing
