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 ...

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 ...

Physicists have demonstrated with unprecedented accuracy that the speed of light remains constant. In 1887, a landmark physics experiment was carried out by American researchers Michelson and Morley.

Albert Einstein's theories of relativity have been proven to be true time and again in the more than 100 years following their publication. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is celebrated mostly for his world-changing scientific theories, but also for some of his pronouncements on the fundamental nature of ...

Albert Einstein knew how to work hard, and he also knew when to take time off. He once said, "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." Einstein's curiosity drove him as a child, ...

In the 55 years since Albert Einstein's death, many scientists have tried to figure out what made him so smart. But no one tried harder than a pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who lost his job and his ...

Albert Einstein had a colossal corpus callosum. And when it comes to this particular piece of neural real estate, it’s pretty clear that size matters. Chances are, that brawny bundle of white matter ...

One hundred years after Albert Einstein made public his theory of general relativity, many of us struggle to understand it, though we take it and its legacy for physics and our understanding of the ...

The Bronx now has a new state-funded 21-bed children's psychiatric facility, increasing local inpatient care by 31%.