As one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century, Albert Einstein has become synonymous with genius. He taught himself geometry and calculus while living in Germany in his teens before ...

Over four months, March through June 1905, Albert Einstein produced four papers that revolutionized science. One explained how to measure the size of molecules in a liquid, a second posited how to ...

This year marks 120 years since Albert Einstein’s 'miracle year' in 1905, when he published many of his groundbreaking discoveries that revolutionised modern physics, including his famous equation, ...

this novel theory could also finally unite Albert Einstein's general relativity with the quantum realm. Since the beginning of the 20th century, Einstein's theory of general relativity has been ...

March 14 is also Albert Einstein’s birthday. The human who is perhaps more associated with intellectual genius than anyone else in history was born in Germany on March 14, 1879. A little over 40 ...

While the model is well-known and recognised, what do we know about the behind-the-scenes of this photo? Tongue out, hair in ...

Albert Einstein is arguably the most influential scientist of the 20th century. His general theory of relativity changed our understanding of space and time, becoming one of the two pillars of ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has released new breakthrough findings on one of science’s biggest mysteries — one that Albert Einstein once called his “biggest blunder.” In March, Berkeley Lab ...

But perhaps the most beautiful effect of gravitational lensing is what's known as an Einstein Ring. This is where the distant galaxy is so perfectly centered behind the closer galaxy that its ...

Khalili reviews Quantum Drama, a new book by physicist and science writer Jim Baggott and the late historian of science John ...

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