Albert Einstein is one of the most recognized and well-known scientists of the century. His theories solved centuries-old problems in physics and rocked even non-physicists' view of the world.

Albert Einstein had described the special theory of relativity in 1905. The result of Einstein's thinking about light, this theory introduced brand-new ideas to science. It opened up an entire ...

But what if the answer to some—maybe even all—of these problems isn’t a radical new theory but rather an old one, devised almost a century ago by none other than Albert Einstein himself?

Three years later, in 1942, the Manhattan Project officially launched. Albert Einstein (center) celebrates his 70th birthday at the Institute for Advanced Study with J. Robert Oppenheimer (second ...