Albert Einstein

A brainy schoolboy who is obsessed with space took an IQ test and got a better score than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Julien Deleau-Lees was aged just 10 when ...

"I have serious concerns about the present efforts in education."

It was said that there was nothing the young James Clerk Mazwell couldn’t decode. Curiosity drove him to ...

With an estimated 8 billion people in the world, there are only about 100 or so known cases ...

A wonderful story on a child's insight into wonder.

For centuries, Isaac Newton was the man when it came to our understanding of how the universe works. ...

Two outstanding experiences created cracks in his armor of atheistic certainty and disrupted what he calls his "web ...

Albert Einstein is best known for his outstanding contributions in the field of science. We can admire him ...

Commentary It’s an unfortunate theme of our times: One can support science or one can believe in a ...

JERUSALEM—A handwritten letter written by Albert Einstein warning of the dangers of growing anti-Semitism and fascism years before ...

The universe is expanding 9 percent more quickly than expected, telling us there's something we're missing. Could it ...

Gravitational waves have long been a fascination among physicists. First posited by Albert Einstein in 1915, gravitational waves ...

Many scientists believe that anything sent into a black hole would probably be destroyed. But a new study ...

When he wasn't busy scribbling out the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein seems to have spent a fair ...

"In a dream I saw a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I ...

Some may view science and spirituality as mutually exclusive, but some of the greatest modern scientists have viewed ...

Some discoveries fade into obscurity, while other blaze a new trail the moment they’re published.

The problem is that as far as we know, faster-than-light travel is impossible.

The evolution of science and engineering in the 21st century has transformed the role of these professions in ...

A perplexing gamma ray burst that seemed to move across a supermassive black hole faster than the speed ...

The debate about whether we have free will extends beyond philosophy into neuroscience, physics, and even literary theory.

Space may seem calm, but it is a more hostile environment than that on Earth. Invisible radiation is ...

Some of the world's most brilliant scientists have investigated whether time travel could one day be made a ...