Rare book on Mahatma Gandhi, with insights from Einstein and other luminaries, discovered in Kerala antique collector's ...

Albert Einstein’s violin has sold for £860,000 (NZ$2 million) at auction. The 1894 Zunterer violin, believed to be the famed scientist’s first, went under the hammer at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in ...

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, ...

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 ...

Although Albert Einstein is best-known as a theoretical physicist, he also spent much of his life grappling with the problem of war. In 1914, shortly after he moved to Berlin to serve as director of ...

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions. Scientists tracked the complete cosmic collision, confirming that black ...

A violin which once belonged to Albert Einstein has sold for £860,000 at an auction house in Cirencester. It is believed to be the first violin he ever bought for himself, after he started playing the ...

The final fee will be over £1m once commission is added 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 ...

The violin was sold for almost three times its asking price, and could be the highest sale price for a violin that did not previously belong to a concert violinist. Albert Einstein’s first violin that ...

Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites continuously beam down ultra-precise timestamps, each message essentially saying, "It was 12:00:00.000001 when I sent this." ...

Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s ...