Scientists have long sought evidence to refute string theory, but a new test seeks to disprove key aspects with help from the ...

A tiny spacecraft launched on a laser beam can travel to the nearest black hole within a human lifetime, according to ...

The experiment showed that Bohr was definitely correct when he argued for complementarity, and that Einstein had got it wrong ...

Explore the profound influence of Albert Einstein's scientific discoveries, particularly E=mc^2, on the advent of the nuclear ...

A groundbreaking experiment demonstrates yet again that light exists both as a wave and a particle in the quantum world—but ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new rogue planet that was orphaned from its home planetary ...

Fancy a robot chess partner to test your moves on? Perhaps a robotic pet dog? Or a life-sized replica of physicist Albert ...

When an extraordinary cache of love letters written by Albert Einstein to his first wife between 1898 and 1903 went up for auction last December, the historic collection was expected to fetch up ...

The Cerebral Cortex of Albert Einstein: A Description and Preliminary Analysis of Unpublished Photographs. Dean Falk, Frederick E. Lepore and Adrianne Noe in Brain, Vol. 136, No. 4, pages 1304 ...

Physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879. He became a U.S. citizen in 1940 and died in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 18, 1955. (Getty Images) ...

We talked with historian of science Michael Gordin, Princeton’s dean of the college, who has taught the popular course “The Einstein Era,” about the life and times of Princeton’s most famous resident, ...