In 1878, Bergson left the Lycée Condorcet and won entry to the École Normale Supérieure, the most exclusive university in ...

In his heyday—in the 15 years or so before the first world war—Bergson was the most famous man in the world, Emily Herring, a writer, claims in the first biography of him in English.

Waiting for them under the tree in our sunny Pasadena living room might be left-handed oven mitts or can openers, kitchen ...

From movies to activism speeches, iconic quotes have been misquoted and misremembered for years. From the famous figures of ...

Gravity distorted the light from this more distant galaxy, thus the name honoring Albert Einstein. The process is known as gravitational lensing. This photo provided by the European Space Agency ...

Einstein rings of light are produced when two galaxies are almost perfectly aligned, with one behind the other from a fixed perspective. They are one of the best examples we have of gravitational ...

"They're so rare, and they're incredibly useful scientifically," said Conor O'Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

Gravity distorted the light from this more distant galaxy, thus the name honoring Albert Einstein. The process is known as gravitational lensing. “All strong lenses are special, because they ...

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that light will bend around objects in space, so that they focus the light like a giant lens. This gravitational lensing effect is bigger ...

For over a century, astronomers have searched the skies for a perfect example of a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein: a luminous halo formed by the bending of light around a massive object. Now, ...

Euclid space telescope sent some images back to Earth during an early testing phase. While reviewing the pictures, astronomer ...

“The guy is our Einstein,” JPMorgan Chase CEO Dimon told CNBC from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, likening Musk to the legendary physicist Albert Einstei ...