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Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek reflects on Einstein’s greatest contribution.

When one path is blocked, a new one must be paved. How Einstein, Heisenberg and Gödel used constraints to make life-changing discoveries:

Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein are locked in an eternal battle over the nature of gravity. Whose side are you on?

If Einstein couldn’t solve the theory of everything, could anyone? Physicist Michio Kaku explains what it would take.

Albert Einstein played a mean violin.

After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, a pathologist—searching for the secret of genius—removed, dissected, and ultimately stole the mathematician’s brain.

NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains what happens when the densest stars in the galaxy collide.

Wolfgang Pauli was a brilliant, well-liked physicist and a scathing critic of balderdash.

Sabine Hossenfelder talks about Albert Einstein, dead grandmothers, the physics of aging, and more in this full interview with Big Think.

What makes some scientists culturally significant, while others remain in obscurity? Well, there’s a science to it.

You are an energy field — but not the “chakras” or “auras” kind.

Our intuitive understanding of time is very different from a physicist’s understanding of time. How do we reconcile these views?

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Einstein tried to disprove quantum mechanics. Instead, a weird concept called entanglement showed that Einstein was wrong.

Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.

Roger Babson wanted a “partial insulator, reflector, or absorber of gravity” — something, anything, that would stop or dampen it.

Thanks to observations of gravitational waves, scientists were able to settle a longstanding debate over the speed of gravity.

Many mavericks look to Einstein as a unique figure, whose lone genius revolutionized the Universe. The big problem? It isn’t true.

Although many of Einstein’s papers revolutionized physics, there’s one Einsteinian advance, generally, that towers over all the rest.

The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, despite expectations, revealed a null result: no effect. The implications were revolutionary.

In many ways, we are still novices playing with toy models seeking to understand the stars. 

Take it from Bezos, Musk, and Einstein — rethinking lines of inquiry can transform business, investing, and innovation strategy.

Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.

Take a hint from Einstein and Mozart — unplug and make peace with some degree of failure.

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The most celebrated genius in human history didn’t just revolutionize physics, but taught many valuable lessons about living a better life.

The military is courting tech startups to help it win the AI arms race.

From Einstein to Twain, Garson O’Toole investigates the truth behind your favorite — and often misattributed — quotes.

It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.

Perhaps wormholes will no longer be relegated to the realm of science fiction.