Young Einstein encountered his first wonder — a compass — at age 5: He was mystified that invisible forces could deflect the needle. This would lead to a lifelong fascination with unseen forces.

Einstein's Big Idea homepage. 13 April 1901. Professor Wilhelm Ostwald University of Leipzig Leipzig, Germany Esteemed Herr Professor! Please forgive a father who is so bold as to turn to you ...

Albert Einstein is known around the world for changing how we understand space and time. But not many people know that he was ...

A new study of Einstein explores his search for spiritual meaning. In “I Am a Part of Infinity,” Kieran Fox celebrates Einstein’s attempt to address the emptiness of a disenchanted world.

A spectacular Sydney mansion owned by Young Einstein producer Warwick Ross has gone under the hammer for an eye-watering $50million. Ross originally purchased the six-bedroom, four-bathroom ...

For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity. One explains the tiny world of particles; the other describes ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

In Jerry Seinfeld's tribute to Bob Einstein, the comedian and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actor, who died Wednesday at 76, fittingly gets the last laugh, the first laugh and a lot of laughs in between ...

Einstein had a birthday, of course. It was March 14, 1879. ... Maja, was two years younger. It wasn't obvious that he was a genius. Actually, he didn't talk until he was nearly 3.

The young Einstein was obsessed with logical flaws that were glaringly obvious, but only to him. While the great English physicist Lord Rayleigh said he saw “only a few clouds on the horizon” ...

In another letter to his own young son who was studying piano, Einstein advised him, “mainly play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those.