A famous aphorism by Albert Einstein is carved in stone, in the original German, over the mantelpiece of one of the common rooms at Princeton. When I was a graduate student I would sometimes take ...

In a 1923 book called “The Principle of Relativity,” Albert Einstein seemed to call out to better-equipped scientists of the future to establish the truth of his mind-bending theoretical work. “Apart ...

UNIGE Professor Michele Maggiore has been appointed spokesperson for the future European gravitational-wave observatory.

As Albert Einstein wrote elegantly about our experience of time and space, he also devoted his days to the process of social transformation: the question of how one world becomes another. He was ...

In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a striking concept in a 1935 paper. In that work, they described an abstract ...

Albert Einstein was one of the most important and influential scientists of the twentieth century, and indeed in all of history. His work has helped generations of today’s astronomers and physicists, ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...