Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

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

Using the Einstein Probe (EP), astronomers have detected a new X-ray transient event, which turned out to be an X-ray flare ...

This article explores the unsettling story of how Albert Einstein's brain was removed without consent after his death, its journey through decades of storage, and the implications it had on our ...

The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

A supermassive black hole was caught twisting spacetime, offering the clearest real-world evidence yet for Einstein’s frame-dragging theory.

Einstein’s quote feels especially relevant because many people feel disconnected from themselves. We are told what to want, ...

Many social media posts have paraphrased what Einstein wrote in an essay that was published by the independent socialist magazine “Monthly Review" in May 1949. While the passage Einstein wrote did ...

Physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955), whose entreaty to President Franklin Roosevelt helped lay groundwork for the creation of the atomic bomb, famously worried about the potential for science and ...

In 1907, Albert Einstein had his “happiest thought” — people in free fall do not feel their own weight. This simple idea laid the foundation for his general theory of relativity, which Einstein ...