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

This article explores the unsettling story of how Albert Einstein's brain was removed without consent after his death, its journey through decades of storage, and the implications it had on our ...

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, ...

Albert Einstein arrived in New York on the SS Rotterdam IV; crowds of people awaited his arrival in the States. FPG / Archive Photos / Getty Images Thousands of New Yorkers lined the harbor as the ...

Albert Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921 Ferdinand Schmutzer/Wikimedia Commons Albert Einstein is known not only as one of history’s greatest scientists and thinkers, but also as a proponent ...

For more than a century, the double-slit experiment has been the sharpest test of what reality is made of, and of whether ...

Astronomers have spotted a Saturn-sized world drifting through a region of space that theory once said should be almost empty ...

Albert Einstein's most iconic photo of him sticking out his tongue was almost lost to history. Editors hesitated to release it because they feared the expression ...

Using the Einstein Probe (EP), astronomers have detected a new X-ray transient event, which turned out to be an X-ray flare ...

From the detonation of a hydrogen-based explosive to ending a century-old debate, here are some of the major science ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...