The pi holiday originated in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw, and Congress passed legislation to recognize pi as a national holiday in 2009. March 14 is also Albert Einstein’s birthday.

Albert Einstein is arguably the most influential scientist of the 20th century. His general theory of relativity changed our understanding of space and time, becoming one of the two pillars of ...

1905 is referred to as the “miracle year” by physicists. In that one year, Albert Einstein published four papers that laid the foundations of modern physics. One of the major breakthroughs ...

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 ...

In doing so, he will portray a mess of a lazy and tenured college professor, Lew Einstein, who happens to be the great grandson of the great Albert Einstein. Lew is a pain in the butt, and ...

Albert Einstein, in 1905, presented the revolutionary idea of light quanta of energy which equals ħw, where ħ is reduced Planck's constant. There is plenty of experimental evidence on magnetic ...

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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 ...

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Think back to childhood; odds are you spent an inordinate amount of time watching funny kids cartoons. Until recently, watching cartoons on programmed television was simply part of being a kid.

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