Albert Einstein spent his life trying to understand how the universe was built—its hidden order, its baffling symmetries, the strange ways space and time could bend. Long before the German physicist’s ...

Albert Einstein was a thinker ahead of his time. Born March 14, 1879, Einstein entered a world where the dwarf planet Pluto had yet to be discovered, and the idea of spaceflight was a distant dream.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Albert Einstein created a set of equations to predict the nature of our universe. Over a century later, unprecedented results from a group of scientists are consistent with his ...

Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...

The quote above has been attributed to Albert Einstein for many years. It has been used extensively in writings, ...

Albert Einstein would have been 139 years old Wednesday. Happy Birthday! Einstein's science, and general views on humanity, have profoundly changed the way we see ourselves and the world we live in.

In the early 1900s, Albert Einstein developed an idea - called Relativity - that changed our understanding of reality. It explained how both space and time were flexible - and how the Universe was ...

It is one of history’s more irritatingly on-brand coincidences that Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day, as though the universe itself decided that if it was going to manufacture the patron saint of ...

Written with Leopold Infeld, this book traces the development of physics from classical mechanics to modern theories like quantum mechanics and relativity. It is an excellent resource for those ...