Einstein wanted to avoid that and create a safer fridge. Mental Floss explains that traditional fridges required a consistent seal to trap the toxic gases that cool the fridge.

Einstein caught the world's imagination when he theorized that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light. But does the light really go off when you shut the refrigerator door?

Humanity might have saved itself a lot of trouble in the long run by investing in the Einstein-Szilard approach to cooling water with fire.

But Einstein had other interests that are less well known — he was a staunch pacifist, invented an early refrigerator and called himself a "deeply religious non-believer." What do you know about ...

Albert Einstein is one of the most written-about figures of the 20th century, and for good reason. His theories upended the system that physicists had used to describe the world since Newton ...

A mushroom cloud towers over Nagasaki after the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945. Albert Einstein struggled with his role in the creation of the bomb and the devastation wrought by the U.S ...

But Einstein had other interests that are less well known — he was a staunch pacifist, invented an early refrigerator and called himself a "deeply religious non-believer." What do you know about ...