How much of a role did Albert Einstein's first wife play in the theory of relativity? In recent years, some historians have asserted that Einstein shared the credit for his research on the special ...

Born on the 14th March 1879, Albert Einstein was one of several great minds that were born within the German city of Ulm. Other great minds were Max Bentele – the creator of the Wankel Rotary Engine ...

There is huge news in the science world: Scientists just announced that they have detected gravitational waves from the merging of two black holes in deep space – something predicted a century ago by ...

Consider the tiles on a bathroom floor or wall; they’re often arranged in a repeating pattern. But is there a single shape that tiles such a surface — an infinite one — in a pattern that never repeats ...

Wormholes have long served as science fiction’s favorite shortcut through the cosmos, but a growing body of theoretical physics research suggests they will never function as tunnels. That does not ...

Those architects of modern education obsessed with abandoning the humanities in favor of the so-called STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and math) should pause to consider the words of ...

Einstein’s equations look like abstract math, but when the logic is followed all the way through, the results get unsettling fast. They predict effects like time slowing down, space bending, and ...

Constantine Karatheodori is one of the greates mathematicians of the 20th century. He worked with many great minds including ...