Can a photon be caught behaving like a wave and a particle in the same run of an experiment? For almost a century, that ...

Albert Einstein was arguably the most famous scientist of the 20th century. Most people are familiar with his iconic E=mc^2 equation, but his life and work encompassed so much more than that. For ...

This year marks 120 years since Albert Einstein’s 'miracle year' in 1905, when he published many of his groundbreaking discoveries that revolutionised modern physics, including his famous equation, ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

1.He had published his theory of special relativity in 1905 but took another ten years working out the mathematics of general relativity. 2.Special relativity is based essentially on the constant ...

Albert Einstein’s death in 1955 set off an extraordinary and ethically fraught afterlife for his brain, secretly removed by a hospital pathologist and kept for decades. Intended as a scientific quest, ...

Light has always been the stage on which quantum mechanics performs its strangest tricks, and the double-slit experiment is ...

Historically speaking, did you know that: Einstein: The scientist Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955, first visited Princeton University in May 1921. At the age of 26, he proposed the equivalence of energy ...

The man was the smartest person on the planet. On his birthday, why not celebrate by quoting him and sounding brilliant?