The legendary photo of Albert Einstein's tongue, one of the most famous images of the 20th century, will be auctioned with an ...

On July 13, 1944, in a modest Boston boarding house, William James Sidis was found unconscious. He had suffered a massive ...

On Satyendra Nath Bose's death anniversary, we revisit how Einstein’s intervention saved his rejected paper, leading to ...

Exclusive: The wealthy banking heir and Encyclopedia Britannica owner blames the auction house for sloppily offloading his ...

Albert Einstein’s Early Years Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in the German city of Ulm beside the Danube River. His parents were secular Jews who were part of the middle class.

Einstein spoke presciently about the plight of European Jewry as guest of honour at Savoy Hotel dinner in October 1930 ...

Albert Einstein’s love letters and a slew of other pricey artwork are at the center of a nasty legal battle between Christie’s Auction House and a banking billionaire who owns Encyclopedia ...

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Swiss collector Jacob "Jacqui" Safra has filed a lawsuit against Christie's in New York, alleging betrayal of trust and ...

A team of researchers, led by Professor Antonio Feoli, has addressed a critique of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein ...

From 1666 until Einstein’s day, physics — the way humans look at the mechanics of nature — was dominated by the work of Isaac Newton. Then, in 1905, the 26-year-old Einstein published a ...