The mind-bending concept of time dilation results from a seemingly harmless assumption—that the speed of light is the same ...

Before Albert Einstein died, he explicitly stated that he didn't want to be studied. But mere hours after his death, the ...

Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity was published more than a century ago and and it could save Earth from a black ...

The genius gave unexpected but easy-to-implement advice to a mother looking to support her child's intellectual development.

The letters not only provided an insight into the emotional world of the young Albert Einstein, but also — quite incidentally — testified to the development of his scientific theories. Einstein and ...

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

Albert Einstein is the most renowned, and most recognizable, scientist of the 20th century — and possibly of all time. It’s astonishing how famous he was and remains. Every single student in this ...

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 is known around the world for changing how we understand space and time. But not many people know that he was once offered a surprising job — to become the president of Israel, writes ...

This undated photo provided by Christie's shows the first page of Albert Einstein's "God Letter," dated January 3, 1954.in which he offers his candid and unvarnished opinion that: "The word God is ...