Albert Einstein was arguably the most famous scientist of the 20th century. Most people are familiar with his iconic E=mc^2 equation, but his life and work encompassed so much more than that. For ...

Albert Einstein was a thinker ahead of his time. Born March 14, 1879, Einstein entered a world where the dwarf planet Pluto had yet to be discovered, and the idea of spaceflight was a distant dream.

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

‘Since I was a boy, I’ve always gravitated to stories of travel and parts of the world that I knew very little about when I was growing up,” said film producer and director Taran Davies. The US-born ...

This year marks 120 years since Albert Einstein’s 'miracle year' in 1905, when he published many of his groundbreaking discoveries that revolutionised modern physics, including his famous equation, ...

Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article ...

Nearly 80 years ago, a New London high school senior wrote Albert Einstein a question about the famous scientist's special theory of relativity — and got a brief answer. The result is one of the few ...

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," ...

Most popularizers of science operate on the hopeful theory that anything, no matter how complex, can be reduced to terms a layman can understand. Radio hardly ever bothers to try. Last week it did.