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 ...

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

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the ...

From the detonation of a hydrogen-based explosive to ending a century-old debate, here are some of the major science developments of the year.

A rare manuscript featuring early calculations that led to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity sold for just over $13 million at an auction in Paris Tuesday, becoming the most expensive ...

Albert Einstein arrived in New York on the SS Rotterdam IV; crowds of people awaited his arrival in the States. FPG / Archive Photos / Getty Images Thousands of New Yorkers lined the harbor as the ...

A century after Albert Einstein sketched out his radical picture of gravity, astronomers have now watched a black hole ...

Albert Einstein's most iconic photo of him sticking out his tongue was almost lost to history. Editors hesitated to release it because they feared the expression ...

We talked with historian of science Michael Gordin, Princeton’s dean of the college, who has taught the popular course “The Einstein Era,” about the life and times of Princeton's most famous resident, ...