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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre. Riverhead, $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-399-18441-3 This enchanting book from Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist, looks at ...

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 ...

In Rovelli’s formative book, now published in English for the first time, he argues that a little-known Greek philosopher invented the idea of the cosmos Something very startling happened in Miletus, ...

The physicist ranges widely — from black holes to Buddhism to climate change — in his new book, “There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness.” A new book by Carlo ...

What is time? It ticks by, moment by moment, day after day. But it’s so baked into our lives that we don’t think much about it, unless we’re late for an appointment or suddenly notice those gray hairs ...