Einstein’s legacy extends far beyond physics; it offers one of history’s most entertaining and enlightening reminders that ...

Einstein’s genius enabled the atomic age, but his conscience rejected its darkest creation. This piece uncovers why he ...

Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article unpacks why the Nobel committee hesitated: Alfred Nobel’s rules, distrust of ...

The Einstein–de Haas effect, which links the spin of electrons to macroscopic rotation, has now been demonstrated in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Ferdinand Schmutzer - Public Domain/Wiki Commons. Albert Einstein, everyone's favorite wild-haired genius with a ...

Figure 1. Artist's impression of the Einstein Probe satellite catching an intermediate black hole, tearing apart a white ...

Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version of this story misrepresented one of Einstein's accolades. Here's what you probably know: Albert Einstein is the mastermind behind E=mc² and the Theory ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

Nobel Prize winning scientist Albert Einstein was also an ardent civil rights advocate, particularly after he moved to the United States in late 1932 from Germany. Proof of his commitment to advocacy ...

When we perceive someone as intelligent, we often seek their wisdom-and if they can provide it in a pithy quote, all the better. That's probably why famous theoretical physicist Albert Einstein ...

Easily the most important opera of the last half century, “Einstein on the Beach,” at least at first, meant far more to those who witnessed it than to the art form itself, which couldn’t have cared ...