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

The German physicist revolutionized modern science and became a critical voice on the ethical responsibility of scientific ...

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 ...

Our understanding of the universe may be completely wrong.

Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the ...

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 ...

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

A rare, 54-page manuscript co-written by Albert Einstein and his lifelong friend and engineer Michele Besso, in which the pair lay out the foundations of Einstein's famous theory of general relativity ...

Even before LIGO published its detection this week, most modern scientists had already accepted gravitational waves as an observable of Einstein’s general relativity. But that hasn’t always been the ...