IT’s 70 years this week since the king of all boffins, Albert Einstein, died, aged 76 – but did you know that his brain was ...

Albert Einstein’s face floats in a glass box and follows me as I walk back and forth in an exhibit hall at Yale’s Peabody ...

What Europe may gain in attracting American talent is far outweighed by the overall cost to science and innovation.

The bustle of campaigns, lofty promises, and smiling faces on billboards are part of the democratic ritual that we presume to perform with full awareness and rationality. However, while citizens ...

After fleeing Nazi Germany for the United States in 1933, Albert Einstein spent the final years of his life in America. Though he failed to contribute any more groundbreaking scientific contributions, ...

Little is known about the circumstances that led the teenage Albert Einstein not to follow through with his bar mitzvah, but the decision foreshadowed his eventual journey to figure out a ...

Over four months, March through June 1905, Albert Einstein produced four papers that revolutionized science. One explained how to measure the size of molecules in a liquid, a second posited how to ...

Albert Einstein’s brain, Roland Barthes once wrote, “is a mythical object.” His genius is immortalized in the public imagination through a single, elegant equation: E = mc². His theories of ...

Albert Einstein had connections with Bose, Tagore, Gandhi, and Nehru. He met Rabindranath Tagore in Germany, where they exchanged a series of brilliant thoughts. While Einstein showed an interest in ...