Einstein’s brain wasn’t larger — it was built differently. The region responsible for spatial reasoning was wider than normal because a major brain groove was missing, giving him more neural real ...

Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article ...

Across cultures and eras, human remains have held powerful spiritual and symbolic significance. The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying a king’s body ensured his ascent to the gods. The ...

Émile Zola, the French novelist, once quipped: “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” The very same can be said about geniuses, and, in fact, it should be said ...

As humans go, Albert Einstein was pretty smart. Using nothing but “thought experiments,” he figured out the fabric of the universe (special and general relativity and spacetime), the whole energy is ...