Two landmark quantum experiments have sharpened one of the oldest arguments in modern physics, and the verdict is not kind to ...

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

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

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 ...

How a rejected paper by Kolkata physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, backed by Albert Einstein, laid the scientific foundation for ...

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, ...

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

Albert Einstein’s so-called God letter first surfaced in 2008, when it fetched four hundred and four thousand dollars in a sale at a British auction house. The letter came back into the news earlier ...

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 — ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

For many years, online users shared an alleged quote from physicist Albert Einstein, claiming he once said, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." The ...