Albert Einstein was well known for his thought experiments involving complex scientific ideas. Often he used real-world examples that helped non-scientists grasp his theories of relativity.

Three years later, in 1942, the Manhattan Project officially launched. Albert Einstein (center) celebrates his 70th birthday at the Institute for Advanced Study with J. Robert Oppenheimer (second ...

Galactic lenses like this one, which is the closest astronomers have ever found, were predicted by Albert Einstein in 1936 from his theory of general relativity. At the time, he thought such an ...

March 14 is also Albert Einstein’s birthday. The human who is perhaps more associated with intellectual genius than anyone else in history was born in Germany on March 14, 1879. A little over 40 ...