On August 12 the sky will go dark for just two minutes and 18 seconds, at longest, across a swath of the world that includes ...

Excerpted from “ Relativity: The Special and the General Theory 100th Anniversary Edition ” by Albert Einstein with Commentaries and Background Material by Hanoch ...

Albert Einstein was a master of physics, but his talent in personal relationships was decidedly underdeveloped. A new 10-episode series, Genius, airing on the National Geographic Channel, focuses on ...

Sometimes it seems like every year offers an occasion to celebrate some sort of Einstein anniversary. In 2015, everybody lauded the 100th anniversary of his general theory of relativity. Last year, ...

Those architects of modern education obsessed with abandoning the humanities in favor of the so-called STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and math) should pause to consider the words of ...

Who was Einstein? Why is he still so alive? / Gerald Holton -- A short history of Einstein's paradise beyond the personal / Lorraine Daston -- Einstein's Jewish identity / Hanoch Gutfreund -- Einstein ...