Einstein’s legacy extends far beyond physics; it offers one of history’s most entertaining and enlightening reminders that ...

The Einstein–de Haas effect, which links the spin of electrons to macroscopic rotation, has now been demonstrated in a ...

The sharpest black hole collision ever detected just gave Einstein another win—and raised hopes that the next one might ...

Einstein’s genius enabled the atomic age, but his conscience rejected its darkest creation. This piece uncovers why he ...

Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article unpacks why the Nobel committee hesitated: Alfred Nobel’s rules, distrust of ...

A simple look at how Albert Einstein used music to think, dream, and see his life. Learn how mixing art and science can boost ...

Albert Einstein is synonymous with genius, and his legacy is omnipresent. He’s name-dropped in countless rap songs, and E=mc2 is considered one of the world’s most famous equations. He’s so revered, ...

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 ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

In 1905, a young patent clerk's four papers shook the world. The world's most famous equation E = mc2 emerged that year. But looking back, it only marked the initial performances of Einstein's ...

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 ...