An international team including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Sir Roger Penrose has observed a long-predicted effect of gravity on a falling quantum object for the first time. The result ...

Einstein’s abandoned cosmological constant made a spectacular comeback when astronomers discovered that the universe’s expansion is accelerating. It now sits at the heart of our best cosmological ...

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Snopes Illustration. For decades, Snopes has kept tabs on popular rumors regarding Albert Einstein, the German-born physicist most famous for developing his theory ...

For years, people online have shared an alleged fact: Albert Einstein married one of his cousins. For example, on Aug. 3, 2026, a TikTok user shared a video (archived) showing three people reacting ...

The “hat” tile is a mathematical wonder. Discovered by amateur mathematician David Smith in 2022, it can be used to cover every square inch of an endless bathroom floor (or any other surface) without ...

What if wormholes were never cosmic tunnels at all? New research suggests Einstein and Rosen’s famous “bridge” may actually reveal something even stranger: time itself could flow in two directions at ...

Last week, Pod Save America, the popular podcast founded by former Obama-administration staffers, hosted the influencer and leftist provocateur Hasan Piker. A charismatic and pugnacious socialist ...

Amanda Heidt is a freelance writer and editor in Moab, Utah. On 23 February, academics across the world took to social media to decry the death of education as we know it. The day before, a technology ...

CBS has found its female lead for its original series Einstein. Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) will star opposite the previously announced Matthew Gray Gubler, who plays Albert Einstein’s ...

A new open-source AI tool is redefining what AI assistance in education looks like. Einstein, created by the startup Companion, goes beyond just generating answers for homework assignments. It does it ...

As Albert Einstein wrote elegantly about our experience of time and space, he also devoted his days to the process of social transformation: the question of how one world becomes another. He was ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A near-100-year-old debate between the theoretical physicists Albert ...