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Dr Paul Wingfield never imagined that attending his brother-in-law's wake would lead him to authenticate a violin once owned by Albert Einstein. "I just set out to write this musical about Einstein," ...

Although Albert Einstein is best-known as a theoretical physicist, he also spent much of his life grappling with the problem of war. In 1914, shortly after he moved to Berlin to serve as director of ...

A violin that once belonged to one of history's best known scientists has sold at auction for £860,000. The 1894 Zunterer violin is believed to have been Einstein's first and was initially expected to ...

In August 1974, when the Sterrewacht in Leiden moved from the buildings which it had occupied since 1861, its archives moved with it. During the time of the removal Professor van de Hulst received a ...

AI-generated illustration. Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. Albert Einstein’s name has become shorthand for genius in theoretical physics. We tend to picture him scribbling equations about space and ...

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions. Scientists tracked the complete cosmic collision, confirming that black ...

Albert Einstein’s last words and the story behind them. Missing hiker found in ‘bad shape' used shorts to bandage feet, Idaho rescuers say Top Navy official fired Amazon recall update: Fatal warning ...

Ten years ago today, on Sept. 14, physicists detected gravitational waves rippling through the cosmos for the first time. The roots of this discovery date back a century. Albert Einstein's general ...

Albert Einstein wasn’t just the scientific whiz behind a famous mathematical equation. He also loved music and fought for civil rights, long before it was a movement. Photograph by PictureLux/The ...

"GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event we have detected to date; it was like a whisper becoming a shout." The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is celebrating 10 ...