In July 1930, Rabindranath Tagore visited Albert Einstein in Caputh, near Berlin, at his summerhouse. The meeting of the two ...

The man was the smartest person on the planet. On his birthday, why not celebrate by quoting him and sounding brilliant?

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

Two landmark quantum experiments have sharpened one of the oldest arguments in modern physics, and the verdict is not kind to ...

Discover everything about Shrinivas Kulkarni, the 2026 RAS Gold Medalist. Learn about his groundbreaking work at Caltech, his ...

In this last part of our series on recently digitized books from the Wenner Collection, we are focusing on works that ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version of this story misrepresented one of Einstein's accolades. Here's what you probably know: Albert Einstein is the mastermind behind E=mc² and the Theory ...