Albert Einstein once said "imagination is more important than knowledge," but this was likely not what he meant.

You may think that the likes of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are the smartest people who have ever lived, but they ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday.

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

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

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