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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even before LIGO published its detection this week, most modern scientists had already accepted gravitational waves as an observable of Einstein’s general relativity. But that hasn’t always been the ...

Subjects such as mathematics, physics and mechanical engineering are a challenge for filmmakers to make exciting. Director Ron Howard seems to have a feel for this kind of material. He directed the ...