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, ...

April 10, 2007 — -- Photographers camped out in front of his home, hounded him with endless questions and forced him into hiding to escape the public eye. He wasn't a Hollywood actor, but Albert ...

Einstein was self-taught and wrote in his journals that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician. His ...

There's more to this genius than the Nobel Prize for Physics and his groundbreaking theories of special and general relativity. Here are intriguing facts about Albert Einstein you never knew. While ...

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Albert Einstein wasn’t just the scientific whiz behind a famous mathematical equation. He also loved music and fought for civil rights, long before it was a movement. Photograph by PictureLux/The ...

More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic general theory of relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy. Now, in ...

Albert Einstein is one of those people that seem like they have always existed and will always exist, like da Vinci or Chaucer. The world over, people instantly recognize his tufts of white hair and ...

For the first time, scientists have detected two black hole mergers with spins so unusual they may reveal a new generation of ...

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin.