Albert Einstein’s name has become shorthand for genius in theoretical physics. We tend to picture him scribbling equations about space and time, not tinkering in a workshop. Yet tucked alongside his ...

As humans go, Albert Einstein was pretty smart. Using nothing but “thought experiments,” he figured out the fabric of the universe (special and general relativity and spacetime), the whole energy is ...

Whether it be through their art or mathematical formulas, the great minds of the past—like Sappho, Michelangelo, and Albert Einstein—have deeply influenced our understanding of the world around us.