Albert Einstein’s name has become shorthand for genius in theoretical physics. We tend to picture him scribbling equations about space and time, not tinkering in a workshop. Yet tucked alongside his ...

Albert Einstein's work in part led to the prediction of quantum entanglement: the idea that two particles can remain connected across vast distances of space and time. Einstein found the idea absurd ...

Albert Einstein’s work so revolutionized physics that it is difficult to discuss him without slipping into hagiography. Indeed, his brilliance is so storied that his surname has become synonymous with ...

A unified Theory Of Everything is the holy grail of physics, but gravity refuses to play ball. A newly proposed theory attempts to unify Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics – and ...

Three letters written by Albert Einstein in 1945 are up for auction and offer an intriguing glimpse into the renowned physicist's criticisms of how scientists were interpreting physics at the quantum ...

PITTSBURGH—During his 60 years in general relativity, the field of physics established by Albert Einstein, University of Pittsburgh Professor Emeritus of physics and astronomy Ezra T. Newman not only ...

According to a recent publication in the journal Nature, results from a groundbreaking global experiment conducted back in late 2016 have proven Albert Einstein the legendary physicist wrong about a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a newly discovered letter written by Albert Einstein, the renowned physicist suggested there ...

Two decades later, von Laue gifted the items to Margarete Hommrich, an Einstein admirer from Braunschweig. Her family kept ...

In a recent auction, world renowned physicist, Albert Einstein’s melodious violin went on sale at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in South Cerney, Gloucestershire.A musical instrument that ...

If that seems like a weird question to you, consider the fact that it's the one most pressing for physicists and for their most successful theory about the physical world. That theory is called ...