Albert Einstein encountered a curious math puzzle involving an old car on a hill. The problem, seemingly simple, highlighted ...

For more than a century, the double-slit experiment has been the sharpest test of what reality is made of, and of whether ...

The Princeton that Albert Einstein knew in 1933 was sharply divided by the color line; a long-established border—marked by ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

The final episode of fifth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things is out this week, and the concept of a wormhole ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

A historical account of Einstein's 'Fernparallelismus' approach towards a unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism is given. In this theory, a space-time characterized by a ...

Albert Einstein’s death in 1955 set off an extraordinary and ethically fraught afterlife for his brain, secretly removed by a hospital pathologist and kept for decades. Intended as a scientific quest, ...

Albert Einstein’s quote of the day highlights the idea that problems cannot be solved using the same way of thinking that created them. Rooted in his post–World War II warnings about nuclear weapons, ...

On Dec. 3, former Swarthmore math professor Eduard “Teddy” Einstein was tragically killed after being struck by a car while riding his bicycle in Upper Darby, PA. He was 38. His death was announced to ...