The European Space Agency launched its penultimate mission to the International Space Station on Wednesday (June 5), expending great energy to lift a record amount of mass aboard a spacecraft named for the scientist famous for equating the two quantities with the expression "E=mc^2." Full story
Is time an illusion? Does time "pass"? And do people have free will, or just predetermined destiny? Full story
Living legend Stephen Hawking has already achieved superhero status in the eyes of many science geeks, and now his ideas are being honored in comic book form. Full story
Quantum mechanics, the bizarre set of rules that govern the behavior of elementary particles, is notoriously confounding. Even Albert Einstein — winner of a Nobel Prize for his work in the field — thought there was something dicey about the whole business. But then again, he was a grown man. Full story
European researchers said Friday they have measured the speed of neutrinos and found the subatomic particles don't travel faster than light after all, refuting another team's measurements that prompted widespread disbelief among scientists last year. Full story
A neuropathologist has donated slides containing samples of Albert Einstein's brain to a museum in Philadelphia, Penn.
The signature of Albert Einstein is seen on a letter displayed with other documents during a press conference at the Israeli Hebrew University in Jerusalem on March 19, 2012. The Israeli Hebrew University is launching a project to digitalis all archived Albert Einstein documents and his private libr
This photograph of Albert Einstein shows the famed scientist in Princeton, N. J., in 1938. It is among the items on display in the exhibit "Einstein" opening Friday, Nov. 15, 2002, at New York's American Museum of Natural History and running through Aug. 10. (AP Photo/Lotte Jacobi Collection, Copyri
The Albert Einstein statue, sits alone covered with a light coating of snow 08 March 2005 in Washington,DC. The statue is one of the most popular in Washington, DC particularly with school groups. Einstein is contemplating a map of the universe as he knew it, made of black granite with some 2,400 st
Traditionally styled "caganer" ceramic figurines of Albert Einstein are pictured on November 17, 2010. Statuettes of well-known people defecating are a strong Christmas tradition in Catalonia, dating back to the 18th century as Catalonians hide caganers in Christmas Nativity scenes and invite frien
Australia: CHICKEN WIRE MASTERPIECES.An artist has recreated the iconic faces of music legends the Beatles, Michael Jackson and Jimi Hendrix using nothing but chicken wire. The incredibly lifelike pieces are made of just under 100 feet of the unusual material and take Ivan Lovatt more than a month
