The Latest Breaking News from Albert Einstein

Test yourself on Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists and possibly the most famous of them all, who was born on March 14 ​in 1879.  

IN 1936, Einstein predicted a cosmic optical illusion — but he thought we'd never be able to see it. Since, astronomers have bore witness to several of these rare tricks.

From mushrooms to canned beans, Einstein had quite the interesting diet. It remains unclear what, if any, influence his diet had on his ability to understand the deepest levels of physics.

Quantum mechanics, or quantum physics, is the body of scientific laws that describe the wacky behavior of photons, electrons and the other subatomic particles that make up the universe.

A novelist who was somewhat very surprisingly shortlisted yesterday for the Ockham book awards - investigates the possibilities of time travel

US scientists have measured Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity -- which holds that gravity slows time down -- at the smallest scale ever, demonstrating that clocks tick at different rates when separated by fractions of a millimeter. Jun Ye, of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and…

The theory of general relativity can't be stopped.

Binary black holes may have strange orientations, ones that are poorly understood and that relativity couldn't account for

Can black holes become white holes? – Remy, age 9, Wangaratta, Victoria

The speed of light puts a speed limit on matter, lets us peer back into the history of our universe, and has deep implications for physics and space travel.

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is based on the idea that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as gravity.