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Does Einstein’s brain hold the secret to his genius?
A new study of the great physicist’s brain received a huge amount of media coverage, but some aren’t convinced by how it has been interpreted Albert Einstein’s brain fascinates scientists and the general public alike, because it may provide clues to the neurological basis of his extraordinary intellectual abilities. The…
Why Einstein never received a Nobel prize for relativity
Nobel prizes often attract controversy, but usually after they have been awarded. Albert Einstein’s physics prize was the subject of argument for years before it was even a reality. There was a lot riding on Einstein winning a Nobel prize. Beyond his academic reputation, and that of the Nobel Institute…
Astronomers find racing star that could prove Einstein was right
US astronomers have found evidence of a star racing tightly around the monstrous black hole at the heart of our galaxy — the closest ever found near the matter-sucking body. The scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles, said the discovery will help them test Albert Einstein’s theory of…
Researchers develop app to mimic Einstein’s brain
Researchers who always marveled at what Albert Einstein was able to do with his brain can now have their own look under the hood: a new iPad application shows slides of his fabled gray matter. Einstein’s brain was removed for study after his death of an aneurysm in 1955 by…
Einstein was right, neutrino researchers admit
A team of scientists who last year suggested neutrinos could travel faster than light conceded Friday that Einstein was right and the sub-atomic particles are — like everything else — bound by the universe’s speed limit. Researchers working at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) caused a storm when…
CERN to re-run Einstein particle tests
GENEVA (Reuters) – Physicists are to run new tests in May after the CERN research institute said on Thursday that its startling findings appearing to show that one of Einstein’s fundamental theories was wrong could have been caused by a loose cable. The CERN lab near Geneva appeared to contradict…
Einstein’s ‘Nazi’ letters to be auctioned in the U.S.
Three letters by Albert Einstein to a American-German group which campaigned against the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s will go on the auction block in Los Angeles next week. In one, the father of relativity praises the “Friends of Truth,” a Cincinnati-based German-American group, for not allowing Jews to…
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