Thomas Harding’s “The Einstein Vendetta” tries, with missionary zeal, to uncover the facts of a long-ago crime.

In August 1944, while the renowned physicist Albert Einstein was living in comfort and safety in his adopted America, his first cousin Robert was hiding out in the woods in Nazi-occupied Italy. As a ...

Our understanding of the universe may be completely wrong.

In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still daring to test it. Some theories of quantum gravity suggest light might ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Former Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) is going from politics to the page, leaving the thrills and chills of Congress to release a ...

Nobel Prize winning scientist Albert Einstein was also an ardent civil rights advocate, particularly after he moved to the United States in late 1932 from Germany. Proof of his commitment to advocacy ...

When we perceive someone as intelligent, we often seek their wisdom-and if they can provide it in a pithy quote, all the better. That's probably why famous theoretical physicist Albert Einstein ...