Albert Einstein might be the daddy of all eggheads. But as his famous theory of special relativity turns 120, we tip our hats ...

History's greatest minds, including Einstein and Curie, defied conventional study methods, embracing self-directed learning ...

The MIT professor, a recipient of the National Medal of Science, developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System.

The letter originally in German was later translated into English by theoretical physicist Herbert Jehle, with help from ...

Einstein never worked directly on developing the world’s first atomic bomb for the United States, but its shadow loomed over ...

Three intertwined time directions may underpin everything, turning space into mere “paint on the canvas” and pushing physics ...

The paper argues that the third principle of thermodynamics follows from the second principle, rather than being a separate or independent concept. Professor José María Martín-Olalla of the University ...

Albert Einstein, considered the most important theoretical physicist of the 20th century, wrote a letter calling the atomic bomb a ‘dreadful danger for all mankind.’ ...

From four-dimensional hexagons to the mind-bending amplituhedron, geometrical shapes are wilder than we learn at school - and ...

A physicist solves an old thermodynamic puzzle and demonstrates directly from the second law that entropy disappears at ...

For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general ...

Imagine detecting a single trillionth of a gram of a molecule—like an amino acid—using just electricity and a chip smaller ...