Throughout his public years, Einstein embodied contradictions ... They were all larger than life, and so therefore, the thinking went, must he be, too. But he wasn’t, as he well knew.

A Growing Mystery The discovery of the Universe’s accelerating expansion in 1998 left scientists scratching their heads, ...

“He was in denial,” Moffat says. “Even Einstein went into denial, because he had invested so much time in this—years!” Near the end of his life, Einstein realized that he wouldn’t live to complete his ...

Discover how Einstein’s theory of special relativity reshaped physics by linking space, time, mass, and energy in a universe governed by the speed of light. Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of ...