Thomas Harding’s “The Einstein Vendetta” tries, with missionary zeal, to uncover the facts of a long-ago crime.

The German physicist revolutionized modern science and became a critical voice on the ethical responsibility of scientific ...

From Nara, Einstein and Elsa traveled overnight by train “from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.” to Hiroshima Prefecture. In the early ...

Despite his genius, Albert Einstein repeatedly struggled while sailing and never learned to swim.

In the rarefied world of theoretical physics, where Albert Einstein’s shadow still looms large, Harvard University and ...

In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a ...

In July 1930, Rabindranath Tagore visited Albert Einstein in Caputh, near Berlin, at his summerhouse. The meeting of the two ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

A quantum physics lesson for gamblers who talk to slot machines, and a Nobel Prize-winning proof that the universe doesn't ...

Former Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) is going from politics to the page, leaving the thrills and chills of Congress to release a ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still daring to test it. Some theories of quantum gravity suggest light might ...

New quantum experiments may settle the century-old Einstein vs Bohr debate, revealing key insights into quantum behaviour.