On one of the last days of his life, Albert Einstein was busy at his desk. He was working on a national television address marking Israel’s seventh anniversary as a sovereign nation and Jewish ...

We talked with historian of science Michael Gordin, Princeton’s dean of the college, who has taught the popular course “The Einstein Era,” about the life and times of Princeton's most famous resident, ...

Einstein urged Roosevelt to fund uranium research, fearing Germany would develop an atomic bomb. After the war, the physicist expressed regret for his role in developing the bomb. His final public act ...

Albert Einstein’s name is synonymous with “genius,” and his wild hair is a trope of its own for mad scientists and professors in popular culture. Einstein’s discoveries led to modern-day inventions ...

Albert Einstein was famous for solving the universe’s biggest mysteries - but even he once admitted that a certain magic ...

Over the years, German physicist Albert Einstein — one of the most prominent and revered intellectual and scientific figures in modern history — has been widely quoted and the subject of countless ...

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 from ...