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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.

Despite no experimental evidence showing that gravitons exist, they remain a respectable concept in the world of professional physicists.

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

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

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

By looking back at future dreams we can see our current hopes and visions in a whole new light.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t become one of those organizations that slouches toward positive behavioral change — here’s how to move fast.

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