The last 30 years of his life were spent on a fruitless search for a unified field theory, but as John Ellis explains, Einstein put this "holy grail" of modern physics on the theoretical map. The ...

According to general relativity, black holes are incomplete, which prevents developing a complete physical description of their dynamical formation and evolution once quantum effects are taken into ...

I have covered several different software packages for doing scientific computation in Linux Journal, but I haven't spent as much time describing available libraries and the kind of work that can be ...