The bizarre yet true story behind the theft of brain of the world's most famous scientist. The bizarre yet true story of the Princeton Hospital pathologist who in 1955 stole Albert Einstein's brain ...

The researchers from Chinese institutes, including BGI-Research, home to the State Key Laboratory of Genome and Multi-omics Technologies, the National Institute of Pathogen Biology in Beijing and ...

Some researchers would have us believe that the reason for Albert Einstein’s remarkable genius was his ample endowment of corpus callosum -- the large fiber tract that, at least in most of us, ...

Albert Einstein's brain has crossed the Atlantic for the first time. It's a journey that one of the 20th century's greatest minds never intended. Before Einstein died 57 years ago, he wrote in his ...

A revolutionary RNA mapping method could let us learn from history’s greatest thinkers—starting with Einstein himself.

The debate over right brain-left brain lateralization has raged on for decades. A 2013 study found Albert Einstein's brilliance may be linked to the fact that his brain hemispheres were extremely well ...

In the 55 years since Albert Einstein's death, many scientists have tried to figure out what made him so smart. But no one tried harder than a pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who lost his job and his ...

Across cultures and eras, human remains have held powerful spiritual and symbolic significance. The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying a king’s body ensured his ascent to the gods. The ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A military museum in Silver Spring is exhibiting what it calls the first three-dimensional image of Albert Einstein’s brain. It’s part of a brain science exhibit at the ...

The Wellcome Collection in London is offering a display of Albert Einstein's brain for a new exhibit called "Brains: Mind as Matter". The showcase also features the brains of William Burke, Edward ...