Albert Einstein was intrigued by a simple puzzle: an old car must travel 2 miles at an average of 30 mph. The twist? Its structure makes the solution impossible. Can you solve it?

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the ...

In this last part of our series on recently digitized books from the Wenner Collection, we are focusing on works that ...

In Los Angeles, where the endless streets are filled with dream factories and the enticing glow of the Hollywood sign burns ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

The Princeton that Albert Einstein knew in 1933 was sharply divided by the color line; a long-established border—marked by ...

Albert Einstein’s death in 1955 set off an extraordinary and ethically fraught afterlife for his brain, secretly removed by a hospital pathologist and kept for decades. Intended as a scientific quest, ...

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The final episode of fifth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things is out this week, and the concept of a wormhole ...

The man was the smartest person on the planet. On his birthday, why not celebrate by quoting him and sounding brilliant?