Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

The Princeton that Albert Einstein knew in 1933 was sharply divided by the color line; a long-established border—marked by ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the ...

The man was the smartest person on the planet. On his birthday, why not celebrate by quoting him and sounding brilliant?

Einstein’s quote feels especially relevant because many people feel disconnected from themselves. We are told what to want, how to live and when to feel successful. In the middle of this noise, ...

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 ...

Even people who know little about Albert Einstein’s work know he was brilliant — so clever that his name is synonymous with genius. Of course, the mind that gave us the theory of general relativity, ...

Although blogs and newspapers alike have oft posthumously placed a familiar quotation pertaining to compound interest — it being the most powerful force in the universe or man’s greatest invention — ...