Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics: “What Is Magnetism?”
The standard model still doesn't describe magnets' spooky action at a distance. 04.24.2008
Welcome to the Hotel Relativity
From Icehotel to the Astronomers Inn, the world's best science-themed hotels and restaurants 04.14.2008
Has the Einstein Revolution Gone Too Far?
Einstein ended science's devotion to experience; it may now be time to come back. 04.01.2008
Albert Einstein, Rock Star
He made science cool, turned bad hair good—and there's that tongue photo. 03.26.2008
Genius at Work
The labs, desks, and chalkboards where Einstein brought his insights into the world. 03.25.2008
Chain Reaction: From Einstein to the Atomic Bomb
He begat the project but was then shut out for being a perceived security risk. 03.18.2008
Einstein Didn't Grok His Own Revolution
He thought black holes and quantum mechanics were too weird to be true. 03.10.2008
Einstein Inc.
In death, he mastered the science of making money. 03.05.2008
Teleportation? Very Possible. Next Up: Time Travel.
Some of the most far-out sci-fi is eminently do-able. 02.28.2008
Could the Next Einstein Be a Surfer Dude?
Six iconoclasts who could revolutionize physics—again. 02.26.2008
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Relativity
Galileo invented it, Einstein understood it, and Eddington saw it. 02.25.2008
Children of a Lesser God
For the offspring of a science deity, the legacy is more burden than blessing. 02.12.2008
Relativity Passes Absolute Test
Exacting research finds Einstein was exactly right. 06.22.2007
Newsflash: Time May Not Exist
Not to mention the question of which way it goes... 06.12.2007
Einstein's Theory of Fidelity
A trove of letters reveals a man of worldly affairs. Yes, that kind of affair. 12.11.2006
My Three Einsteins
He was a brilliant scientist, yes, but also a thoughtful philosopher and a master of his own celebrity. 11.20.2006
Einstein vs. the Nobel Prize
Why the Nobel Committee repeatedly dissed this "world-bluffing Jewish physicist" 09.28.2006
Nice Going, Einstein
He tried to explain gravity but left a giant mess for today's physicists to clean up. 08.01.2006
The Year in Science: History of Science
01.08.2006
Think Tank
Some of the world's greatest scientific minds tell us what they love—and hate—about Einstein 09.30.2004
Plucking the Strings of Relativity
Beyond Einstein, physics faces six great questions 09.30.2004
Einstein's Grand Quest for a Unified Theory
He failed, of course, but he didn't exactly waste his time 09.30.2004
The Master's Mistakes
Einstein was often wrong, but even his errors led to deep truths 09.30.2004
Einstein's Gift for Simplicity
If others like him ever come along, how will we know them? By a remarkable ability to ask the right questions clearly and cleanly 09.30.2004
Einstein's Lonely Path
Surprisingly few theorists have the courage to emulate the master of modern physics 09.30.2004
Tinker, Thinker, Inventor of the Modern World
Look around and you'll find Einstein's fingerprints on everything from GPS satellites to Viagra 09.30.2004
A Tangled Life
How could one man be genius, secular saint, pacifist, humanitarian, indifferent parent, jokester, poet, dreamer, musician, world saver, father of the bomb, loyal friend, flirt, and fraud? 09.30.2004
Einstein [In a Nutshell]
09.30.2004
No Mere Genius
100 years ago, Albert Einstein rocked our universe—and we're still reeling 09.30.2004
Score Another Win for Albert Einstein
New experiments strike a blow against time travel 11.06.2003
Gravity Leaks
06.01.2001
The Gravity Probe
Einstein said a spinning planet should twist space-time. After 40 years of planning and half a billion dollars, the test is about to begin. 03.01.1997
Loops of Space
Gravity and subatomic forces may both arise from a fine mesh of space-time loops. 04.01.1993