Einstein’s Blackboard at the History of Science Museum in Oxford. COLIN STEELE retreats to the cloisters to review three books of disparate themes – biography, mystery and satire – but all based in ...

Personal loyalty to Hitler and Nazism became more valuable than professionalism and talent. Einstein’s example today has much to offer us in the U.S., as scientists once more confront a ...

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by gravitational lensing. This rare sight, caused by light from a distant galaxy ...

Little is known about the circumstances that led the teenage Albert Einstein not to follow through with his bar mitzvah, but the decision foreshadowed his eventual journey to figure out a ...

The blackboard stands as the only one of its kind to be known in the world which has both Albert Einstein's scientific notations and signature, a personal touch from one of the greatest minds in ...

But what if the answer to some—maybe even all—of these problems isn’t a radical new theory but rather an old one, devised almost a century ago by none other than Albert Einstein himself?

Albert Einstein is justly famous for devising his theory of relativity, which revolutionized our understanding of space, time, gravity, and the universe. Relativity also showed us that matter and ...

Few people have spent as much time immersed in the non-scientific side of Albert Einstein’s thinking as Benyamin Cohen. Einstein was, to put it extremely mildly, a pretty smart guy.

Throughout his life, Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a pop star of science. He had his "Annus mirabilis" (Latin for "miracle year") in 1905 when, at age 26, he'd published several groundbreaking ...

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was one of the greatest scientists the world has ever produced. He conceived of totally new ways of understanding time and space, matter and light, gravitation and the ...

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity—which explains gravity as the product of the distortion of space and time—may not be universally applicable. This is the conclusion of physicists ...