Einstein's theory of gravity — general relativity — has been very successful for more than a century. However, it has theoretical shortcomings. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

How Einstein reacted to Hitler’s rise. In September 1930, Germany held its first national elections since the Great Crash of 1929, and the National Socialists won a stunning tally: 6,400,000 ...

So when Einstein called Szilard that morning, the two men agreed to collaborate and build a better, safer refrigerator. Excerpted from CAESAR’S LAST BREATH by Sam Kean Little, Brown ...

100+ years ago, General Relativity came along, and Einstein gave the Universe a cosmological constant. Here's why that was a mistake.

A fiery letter written by Albert Einstein in 1954 is going to auction. The letter details Einstein's thoughts on his part in ...

In 1936, Einstein published an article in Science magazine, detailing what he called “lens-like action of a star by the deviation of light in the gravitational field,” or, in less scientific ...

The creative outpouring that Einstein exhibited in 1905 stands alone in the history of physics. After 100 years of sweeping advances in the subject since then, the content of these papers remains at ...

Einstein and I came hastily to our feet. “I am sorry too,” he said. “My young friend here and I, however, were engaged in the greatest activity of which man is capable. ...

Einstein’s visit to Japan was the heart of his trip. The island was still an exotic destination for Westerners nearly 70 years after Commodore Matthew Perry sailed his U.S. fleet into Edo Bay ...