The cold-blooded execution of Robert Einstein’s family at the Focardo estate near Florence on August 3, 1944, reached beyond the areas generally depicted in Holocaust literature.

A fiery letter written by Albert Einstein in 1954 is going to auction. The letter details Einstein's thoughts on his part in developing atomic weapons, and hails Mahatma Gandhi as a political genius.

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Acclaimed British author Thomas Harding's new book 'The Einstein Vendetta' focuses on brutal murders in a remote Italian ...

Albert Einstein is known around the world for changing how we understand space and time. But not many people know that he was ...

When an extraordinary cache of love letters written by Albert Einstein to his first wife between 1898 and 1903 went up for auction last December, the historic collection was expected to fetch up ...

Albert Einstein's love letters and a slew of other pricey artwork are at the center of a nasty legal battle between Christie's Auction House and a banking billionaire who owns Encyclopedia Britannica.

On 2 August 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter that would result in the Manhattan Project, and one of history's most significant, and destructive, inventions – the atomic bomb.