Special Issue | 6 March 2015General relativity turns 100

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Introduction

Einstein's vision

M Moerchen and R. Coontz
Read the full introduction to Science's "General relativity turns 100" special issue.
News

To catch a wave

A. Cho
After decades of work, physicists say they are a year or two away from detecting ripples in spacetime.
News

The dark lab

D. Clery
To put general relativity to the acid test, researchers are looking inward—toward the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
News

Drop test

A. Cho
Physicists are challenging Einstein’s theory in new versions of the most famous experiment that never happened.
News

General relativity: The comic book

A. Cho
A superquick, superpainless guide to the theory that conquered the universe.
News

Einstein's milestone

E. Conover
In the century since Einstein formulated general relativity, scientists have built on his theory, with developments that were groundbreaking, tragic, and just plain strange.
Daily News

Einstein in his own words

E. Conover
The physicist published a primer on relativity in Science in 1920.
 


Review

The dark side of cosmology: Dark matter and dark energy

D. N. Spergel
The perplexing forms of dark matter now drive studies of how far general relativity can be applied.
Review

A century of general relativity: Astrophysics and cosmology

R. D. Blandford
Einstein's masterpiece theory enjoyed early confirmation and has since seen broad application.
Report

Multiple images of a highly magnified supernova formed by an early-type cluster galaxy lens

P. L. Kelly et al.
Light from a distant supernova at z = 1.491 is detected in four images after being deflected en route by gravitational forces.
Books et al.

Einstein's Unification by Jeroen van Dongen

Review by Michel Jannsen
Janssen, a leading historian of Einstein and relativity, has selected this book as one of the "most important books that have appeared in the last decade or so bearing on Einstein and general relativity".

Multimedia

Who said it, Einstein or not?

As Einstein once said, "Don't believe every quote you read on the Internet."

Photo: Print Collector/Getty images

 

LIGO VIDEO: A bird's-eye view

Take a whirl above a massive gravitational wave detector.

Photo: LIGO Laboratory

 

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