Physicist Albert Einstein, whose theory of relativity uprooted centuries of settled science and laid the foundation for a new era of achievement for mankind, was born to a prominent Jewish family in ...

Although Albert Einstein is best-known as a theoretical physicist, he also spent much of his life grappling with the problem of war. In 1914, shortly after he moved to Berlin to serve as director of ...

When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set ...

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Albert Einstein was arguably the most famous scientist of the 20th century. Most people are familiar with his iconic E=mc^2 equation, but his life and work encompassed so much more than that. For ...

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

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From the terrace of The Willows, the winter home of famous New York attorney Samuel Untermyer on Jan. 25, 1931, the world-renown physicist Albert Einstein made a pronouncement: "This is so beautiful ...

Auctioneers think it might be the highest price ever paid for a violin not previously owned by a concert violinist.