Although Albert Einstein is best-known as a theoretical physicist, he also spent much of his life grappling with the problem of war. In 1914, shortly after he moved to Berlin to serve as director of ...

The violin was sold for almost three times its asking price, and could be the highest sale price for a violin that did not previously belong to a concert violinist. Albert Einstein’s first violin that ...

As telescopes peer into the universe, they sometimes see quirks of nature that magnify faraway objects. These eight galaxies recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear stretched, ...

A rare book on Mahatma Gandhi, published on his 75th birthday on October 2, 1944, has been discovered in an antique collector’s collection at Manjeri in Malappuram district of Kerala. The book, titled ...

In August 1974, when the Sterrewacht in Leiden moved from the buildings which it had occupied since 1861, its archives moved with it. During the time of the removal Professor van de Hulst received a ...

The first violin Albert Einstein bought for himself which he hid from the Nazis has today sold for nearly £1.1million. The genius mathematician acquired the instrument shortly before leaving Munich to ...

Dr Paul Wingfield never imagined that attending his brother-in-law's wake would lead him to authenticate a violin once owned by Albert Einstein. "I just set out to write this musical about Einstein," ...

There is no Jewish view of life in the philosophic sense, according to Professor Albert Einstein. “Judaism,” he says, “appears to me to be almost exclusively concerned with the moral attitude in and ...

The final fee will be over £1m once commission is added A violin that once belonged to one of history's best known scientists has sold at auction for £860,000. The 1894 Zunterer violin is believed to ...

The Angels may look to a very familiar face for their next managerial hire. Longtime MLB superstar Albert Pujols is believed to be the leading choice for the job for Angels owner Arte Moreno, league ...