Updates From the Live-Action Halo Series, Frozen 2, and More
The screenwriter of Wonder Woman 1984 might be heading to a mysterious Marvel project. We’re getting Frozen 2 a little…
Einstein's Theory of Gravity Passes Enormous Test on a Galaxy
It would be hard to overstate how resilient the theory of general relativity has been. In its hundred-plus-year…
100,000 Video Game Players Helped Scientists Prove Einstein Wrong
On November 30, 2016, around 100,000 people all over the world logged online and played a video game. Together, they…
We Might Be a Tiny Bit Wrong About Mercury's Orbit
It turns out we may have Mercury’s orbit wrong. Not by much, but by enough that a future mission can measure it, test…
Scientists Used Galaxies as Magnifying Lenses to See Individual Stars Billions of Light-Years Away
When you look up into the night sky, you see lots of stars—but all of them are members of our own Milky Way galaxy.…
Scientists Resolve Mysterious Violation to Einstein's Relativity
Even if you don’t know much physics, you probably know one of its core tenets: an object at rest stays at rest, and an…
Einstein's Theory Passes a Massive Test
The most basic physical laws you’ve learned—those drafted up by Isaac Newton in the 17th century—don’t work for…
That Photo of Einstein Sticking His Tongue Out Just Sold For a Bunch of Money
The image of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out adorns the racks at Spencer’s gift stores across America. But now,…
Scientists Just Observed an Effect of Gravity on Tiny Particles For the First Time
Bad news: Humans will probably never explore the area around a black hole, at least while you’re alive. That’s mostly…
Scientists Weigh a Star Using Gravity, Proving Einstein Wrong by Proving Him Right
Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, called general relativity, is probably the best physics theory ever formulated. It…
Someone Bought Einstein's Smelly Leather Jacket for Nearly $150,000
Today, Christie’s auctioned off the well-worn leather jacket of Albert Einstein. You may know him as the Nobel…
How Ta-Nehisi Coates Inspired a Book About the Hunt for Vulcan
The hunt for a hypothetical planet called Vulcan near Mercury fascinated author Tom Levenson for years. It took some…
4 Typefaces That Let You Write Like Einstein and Other Famous Thinkers
The art of handwritten script is lost on most of us keyboard-attached slobs. But over the past few years, a small group…
The Theft and Half-Century Journey of Einstein’s Brain
On April 17, 1955, the greatest scientist of his generation checked himself into Princeton Hospital due to chest…
Tons of Albert Einstein Documents Are Now Online for Free
On Friday Digital Einstein went live, bringing with it a treasure trove of Einstein letters, correspondences,…
What Time is It in the Universe?
Check your watch. What time is it? But wait, you've actually been moving and accelerating, and according to Einstein,…
A Forgotten Einstein Model of the Universe Describes the Big Crunch
Way back in 1931, Albert Einstein visited the U.S. for three months. Inspired by meetings with Edwin Hubble, he began…
If Einstein Had Never Been Born, Would We Still Have Nuclear Weapons?
Albert Einstein and his equation E=mc² are famously connected to the modern atomic age. But as nuclear historian Alex…