Just shy of a century after Einstein penned his infamous paper on general relativity scientists finally confirmed a cornerstone of his predictions in 2015 — gravitational waves, little curvatures of ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re leaving the podcast studio to take you on a field trip to the LIGO Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

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A specialist checks the alignment of a test beam at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. (National Science Foundation Photo) After three years of upgrading and waiting, due in part ...

Two laboratories that comprise the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) will be designated Historic Physics Sites by the American Physical Society (APS) in a ceremony beginning ...

Optics technician Gary Traylor uses a light to inspect one of the laser-reflecting mirrors at the LIGO facility in Livingston, La. (Credit: Matt Heintze / Caltech / MIT / LIGO Lab) The scientists ...

Listening out: an upgrade to the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana could allow the twin detectors to spot gravitational-wave ...

Scientists from Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are using powerful X-rays to study high-performance mirror coatings that could help make the ...

It missed the historic discovery, but the Virgo lab in Italy is now primed to extend LIGO’s reach and precision. You have full access to this article via your ...

As one of the key experimentalists to conceptualize and then build one of the biggest experiments in history, Nobel-prize-winning physicist Rainer Weiss’s path to success is remarkable. Now aged 90 he ...