Einstein never worked directly on developing the world’s first atomic bomb for the United States, but its shadow loomed over ...

A letter from renowned physicist Albert Einstein outlining his own role in the development of the atomic bomb and his opposition to war has been put up for auction, with a guide price of between $100, ...

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint for the workings of gravity and spacetime. Meanwhile, quantum mechanics has ...

Albert Einstein was a thinker ahead of his time. Born March 14, 1879, Einstein entered a world where the dwarf planet Pluto had yet to be discovered, and the idea of spaceflight was a distant dream.

Scientists have been working on ways to find new worlds far from Earth, and this strange method theorized decades ago has ...

Einstein sent the 43 letters to his first wife and 'collaborator,' Mileva Marić. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Politicians will try to tell you that funding certain kinds of studies is a waste of taxpayers’ money, that “silly science” ...

Albert Einstein might be the daddy of all eggheads. But as his famous theory of special relativity turns 120, we tip our hats ...

S cientists from Vilnius University (VU) Faculty of Physics, along with members from Poland and other countries, discovered a ...