While instantly recognizable today, E.T.’s overall look was completely absent from Melissa Mathison’s screenplay. Creating ...

A blackboard at a U.K. university is believed to be the only one of its kind that has both Albert Einstein's scientific notations and his signature.

Is there a time of day or night at which nature's heaviest elementary particle stops obeying Einstein's rules? The answer to that question, as bizarre as it seems, could tell scientists something ...

Advert Known as the ‘Little Albert experiment’, psychologist John B. Watson sought out to find evidence of classical conditioning in humans in 1919 by creating fear with a rat. But what ...

More than a century ago, Albert Einstein predicted that massive objects like large galaxies and clusters of galaxies act like giant lenses in space by bending light from distant objects.

At the crossroads of mathematics and tiling lies the einstein problem—a puzzle that, despite its name, has nothing to do with Albert Einstein. The question is simple yet profound: Can a single shape ...

C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi, T. Li; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO This type of cosmic phenomenon is named after the famous theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose theory of general relativity proposed that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prince Albert (full name Prince Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel) was born on the 26 August 1819, the younger son of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (later Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) and Duchess Louise ...