Einstein’s theories of relativity reshaped physics, but some of their implications are stranger than even he anticipated.

There’s an apocryphal story that still occasionally surfaces about how Albert Einstein flunked math in the fourth grade. That’s not true. But he did occasionally need help with his math. One time, ...

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Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward the Big Bang, and the equations run into a singularity, a point where ...

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Although Einstein's theories suggest nothing can move faster than the speed of light, two scientists have extended his equations to show what would happen if faster-than-light travel were possible.

How much of a role did Albert Einstein's first wife play in the theory of relativity? In recent years, some historians have asserted that Einstein shared the credit for his research on the special ...

Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist who changed the way humankind sees the universe. Albert Einstein was arguably the smartest man who ever lived. Albert Einstein made it so Betty Leedom could ...