Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a very good thing Carlo Rovelli did not get eaten by a bear in 1976—though even he admits it would have been his own fault.

It doesn't take a degree in astrophysics or expertise on Albert Einstein to appreciate “White Holes,” theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli's latest book. But brushing up on Dante Alighieri's work might ...

In his latest brief but dazzling journey to the edges of understanding, the theoretical physicist takes us into the heart of a black hole and out the other side I read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over the past few years, black holes have taken a compelling hold on scientific and popular discourse about ...

Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Of all the big ideas floating around — long-termism, degrowth, space colonisation and so on — is any quite as radical as ...

How does a book about theoretical physics sell more than 1m copies? Rovelli explains how he set about sharing his wonder at quantum science There are two kinds of popular science books. The first kind ...

When I was a child, my mother would sneak Brussels sprouts on to my plate. I hated those revolting little orbs of bitterness - but my mother was wily. "It's only a small one," she'd say, as though ...