"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." One of the most influential scientists of the 20 th century, Albert Einstein is well-known for developing ...

There’s a strange irony in the history of the atomic bomb: the most famous scientist on Earth, the man whose equation unlocked the very possibility of nuclear energy, wanted absolutely nothing to do ...

On August 2, 1939, one month before the outbreak of World War II, Albert Einstein signed a two-page letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt that would help bring the US into the nuclear arms race ...

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Dr. Albert Einstein delivered his first major speech in the United States at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now known as Carnegie Mellon University) on Dec. 28, 1934. The ...

JILA physicists have measured Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, or more specifically, the effect called time dilation, at the smallest scale ever, showing that two tiny atomic clocks, ...

The awards juggernaut Oppenheimer provides a blockbuster treatment of one scientist’s profoundly mixed feelings regarding his role in the creation of the atomic bomb, and its subsequent use in ...

We have just commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the start of the war between the United States and Japan. On occasions like this, there is ...

Typed letter signed in black ink on unlined paper with the printed letterhead of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, Princeton, New Jersey. Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical ...

Like Max Planck, Albert Einstein first studied mathematics because he was told that everything interesting in physics had already been discovered. But in 1905, Einstein, a young cleark at the Swiss ...

Cool research story with connections to atomic clocks, Einstein and quantum mechanics. The research shows the 'spooky' interference that can impact even the most sophisticated clocks. A phenomenon of ...