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'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' are both about death
Despite outward appearances, the two summer blockbusters share more than just an opening day. They …
Maiya Focht
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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.
The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize w…
Jenny McGrath
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Who was Lewis Strauss, the villain played by Robert Downey Jr. who tried to frame J. Robert Oppenheimer as a communist?
Strauss levied communist accusations against physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer after years of disagre…
Sebastian Cahill,Hannah Getah…
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'Oppenheimer' fact v. fiction: What the movie got right and wrong according to a nuclear historian
Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is historically accurate in many ways, but it's still a work of f…
Jenny McGrath
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Why Einstein wasn't part of the Manhattan Project even though he convinced President Roosevelt to build an atomic bomb
Einstein didn't join scientists like J. Robert Oppenheimer in the Manhattan Project. US officials w…
Sonam Sheth
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Time appeared to move 5 times slower in the early days of the universe, scientists found
Researchers used quasars — supermassive black holes that feed on gas and are among the bright…
Sonam Sheth
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An AI-powered version of Albert Einstein has joined UneeQ's growing lineup of 'digital humans'
UneeQ, a New Zealand and Austin-based company, has timed the launch of its digital Einstein to mark…
Zahra Tayeb
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After the Big Bang, universe is running 5x slower: Scientists crack the mystery using supermassive black holes
Scientists have for the first time observed the early universe running in extreme slow motion, unlo…
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An experiment that reaches across the galaxy has 'heard' an invisible sea of ripples in space-time for the first time. It's surprisingly loud.
This thrum of gravitational waves is constantly pulsing through the universe. It opens a window int…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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How Einstein really felt about this photo taken of him on his 72nd birthday
Albert Einstein loved this photo so much that he immediately ordered multiple copies to send to fri…
Mike Rucker
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30 quotes that take you inside Albert Einstein's brilliant mind
Portrait of German-born US physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein, 1944.Popperfoto via Getty I…
Steven Benna,Drake Baer,Taylo…
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A biotech millionaire claimed his wild routine cut his biological age by 5 years. Scientists aren't sure most of it really works.
Bryan Johnson, a multimillionaire biotech CEO, follows a strict daily regimen in the hopes of slowi…
Marianne Guenot,Lloyd Lee
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Here's what it actually means to die 'of old age'
Aging is not actually a cause of death. But older people are more likely to succumb to common infec…
Erin Brodwin,Hilary Brueck
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Levi's made an exact replica of Albert Einstein's iconic leather jacket and sold it for $1,200
Levi's Vintage Clothing sold an exact replica of the iconic leather jacket that the physicist used …
Shoshy Ciment
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Stephen Hawking’s wheelchair and dissertation thesis sold for $1 million in online auction
The red motorised wheelchair once used by Hawking went under the stamp for $391.7 million while …
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Black hole image supports Einstein's theory of gravity, disappointing scientists who are probing for cracks
Researchers captured the first image of our galaxy's supermassive black hole. It could help confirm…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Was Einstein wrong about quantum entanglement?
The research, conducted by an international team of physicists from 12 institutions, managed to …
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Stephen Hawking died on a day that is cosmically connected to Albert Einstein and Pi
Hawking was known around the world for making discoveries that transformed the way scientists think…
Jeremy Berke
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Albert Einstein wrote to the US pleading with the government to build an atomic bomb 80 years ago. Here's what he said.
Sir: Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscrip…
Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker,Sin…
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5 of Albert Einstein's thought experiments that revolutionized science
One of Einstein's most defining qualities was his remarkable ability to conceptualize complex scien…