Because the moon has less gravity than Earth does, time passes slightly differently there. This effect was first predicted by ...

Former Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) is going from politics to the page, leaving the thrills and chills of Congress to release a ...

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

Carlson’s parents finally sat her down for a serious talk when she turned 18 and told her she was Jewish. They gave her a ...

A student-organized “tech fast” at St. John’s College led to a mass unplugging by curious undergrads. Some found clarity; ...

The Princeton that Albert Einstein knew in 1933 was sharply divided by the color line; a long-established border—marked by ...

Levi’s Vintage Clothing released a limited-edition reproduction of Albert Einstein’s Menlo Cossack Leather Jacket It’s limited to 800 hand-numbered pieces and retains the original 1935 design Each ...

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110 years ago today, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, which redefined the relationship between matter and gravity. Suddenly, our mysterious universe made a little more sense ...

The 1919 total solar eclipse provided the first empirical test of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, specifically measuring how the Sun distorts light from background stars. General ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, long after his passing. Reading time 5 minutes Albert Einstein is ...