Those architects of modern education obsessed with abandoning the humanities in favor of the so-called STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and math) should pause to consider the words of ...

I recently read excerpts from a 1936 address by Albert Einstein to the State University of New York at Albany. He spoke at the celebration of the tercentenary of higher education in America. His words ...

Albert Einstein was able to make his leap of understanding about mass and energy because of the many scientists before him who had worked hard, seen problems in a new light, and fought to make their ...

Albert Einstein’s theories have been influencing physics for over 100 years. Until recently we haven’t had the technology to test these theories. A team of scientists at MIT’s LIGO labs have been ...

When kids are little, they ask what often seems like a thousand questions each day. But that curiosity and ability to question doesn't always stick with them as advance through the education system, ...

NOVA explores the stories behind E = mc 2 and relates how Einstein came to his startling conclusion that mass and energy are two forms of the same thing. The program: conveys the discoveries that ...

Fussy Frau Albert Einstein manages her fuzzy-crowned husband much as a hen does a bewildered chick. Worrying lately about his health, she wished to have him examined, was able to only by a trick: she ...