It is not me… but a dead man speaking through my lips.” So begins A Shadow of Myself, Peter Flamm’s furious tale of a German ...

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Colombian president urges restraint from Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro after their ...

A funny thing happened when I went to Austin last week. My youngest child, Basil, a junior at the University of Texas, and I paid a visit to the university’s Harry Ransom Center.The crown jewel of UT, ...

Was one of the smartest scientists of all time a poor student? Or is this just one more myth that needs to be busted?

As telescopes peer into the universe, they sometimes see quirks of nature that magnify faraway objects. These eight galaxies recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear stretched, ...

A rare book on Mahatma Gandhi, published on his 75th birthday on October 2, 1944, has been discovered in an antique collector’s collection at Manjeri in Malappuram district of Kerala. The book, titled ...

On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside ...

In August 1974, when the Sterrewacht in Leiden moved from the buildings which it had occupied since 1861, its archives moved with it. During the time of the removal Professor van de Hulst received a ...

A violin that once belonged to one of history's best known scientists has sold at auction for £860,000. The 1894 Zunterer violin is believed to have been Einstein's first and was initially expected to ...

A new study shows glioblastoma isn’t confined to the brain—it erodes the skull and hijacks the immune system within skull marrow. The cancer opens channels that let inflammatory cells enter the brain, ...

Dr Paul Wingfield never imagined that attending his brother-in-law's wake would lead him to authenticate a violin once owned by Albert Einstein. "I just set out to write this musical about Einstein," ...