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Albert Einstein

June 2024

  • Albert Einstein<br>Portrait of physicist Albert Einstein, sitting at a table holding a pipe, circa 1933. (Photo by Lambert/Keystone/Getty Images)

    Einstein letter warning FDR of threat of Nazi nuclear bomb set to fetch $4m

    Two-page letter written by physicist and fellow scientist, for sale at Christie’s, urged US government to invest in nuclear research

February 2024

  • Albert Einstein with his secretary B Howard, Oliver Locker-Lampson and an armed guard outside the hut in 1933.

    Einstein on the run: how the world’s greatest scientist hid from Nazis in a Norfolk hut

    The physicist’s refuge from assassins on a British heath changed the course of history, as a new docudrama shows

December 2023

  • 'Supersrings' artwork showing multiple circles and lines.

    ‘Wobbly spacetime’ may help resolve contradictory physics theories

    Scientist proposes framework for reconciling mathematically incompatible theories of quantum mechanics and Einstein’s gravity

September 2023

  • Einsteinturm (Einstein Tower) before and after renovation.

    Observatory built to represent Einstein’s theory of relativity reopens in Germany

    Einstein Turm (Einstein Tower) has undergone extensive renovations to preserve it for future generations

July 2023

  • Scientists have unlocked the secrets of quasars to use them as ‘clocks’ to measure time near the beginning of the universe.

    Astronomers observe time dilation in early universe

    Events appear to unfold five times slower when universe was a tenth of its present age, in effect predicted by Einstein

June 2023

  • Artist's impression of a black hole

    Astronomers detect ‘cosmic bass note’ of gravitational waves

  • Students at the national launch of Einstein-first at ANU, a program bringing modern day physics into primary and secondary classrooms.

    Nerf guns, marbles and Einstein: schools taking quantum leap to halt Australia’s Stem crisis

May 2023

  • Young Seagull perched on no parking post beach

    The Audio Long Read
    Are coincidences real? – podcast

    The rationalist in me knows that coincidences are inevitable, mundane, meaningless. But I can’t deny there is something strange and magical in them, too.

April 2023

  • Two small children sleep in their respective buggies as unseen parents prepare to cross a street in the City of London. We see the repetition of yellow bars and parallel lines from the childrens' boots and parking restriction lines on the kerb and road.

    The long read
    Are coincidences real?

    The long read: The rationalist in me knows that coincidences are inevitable, mundane, meaningless. But I can’t deny there is something strange and magical in them, too

January 2023

  • Marilyn Stafford at a retrospective of her work at the Brighton Museum &amp; Art Gallery last year.

    Einstein, Piaf, Twiggy: Marilyn Stafford’s extraordinary life behind the lens

    The American photographer, who has died aged 97, was equally at home documenting war as she was shooting celebrity portraits

July 2022

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    Tomorrow’s Einsteins can emerge from all walks of life, given half a chance

    Torsten Bell
    Nurture, not nature, means that inventors come from the richest 1% of the population, but it doesn’t have to be that way

June 2022

  • German-born Swiss-US physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

    The Audio Long Read
    Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face – podcast

    Thanks to a savvy California lawyer, Albert Einstein has earned far more posthumously than he ever did in his lifetime. But is that what the great scientist would have wanted? By Simon Parkin

May 2022

  • A man gesturing towards a female colleague, who is looking away from him and towards the camera

    Brief letters
    Discredit where it’s due for ‘hepeat’ offenders

  • Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue in 1951.

    The long read
    Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face

March 2022

  • A Stafford picture for Givenchy, in Paris, circa 1955.

    ‘Einstein was smiling at me!’ Photographer Marilyn Stafford, 96, on celebrities, slums – and breakfast with Edith Piaf

    She took pictures of world leaders and war zones, sung in a Paris nightclub and befriended Cartier-Bresson – then left her pictures under her bed for decades. As an exhibition of her work opens, she looks back on her extraordinary life

November 2021

  • A page of the Einstein-Besso manuscript is displayed at Christie's in Paris

    Einstein’s notes on theory of relativity fetch record €11.6m at auction

    Manuscript handwritten by physicist and a colleague in 1913-14 fetched nearly four times estimate

October 2021

  • Peter Sellers as Dr Strangelove in the 1964 film

    The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya review – the life of John von Neumann

    An expert on everything from game theory to Byzantine history, the inspiration for Dr Strangelove was as brilliant as he was dangerous

September 2021

  • Einstein. Portrait of Albert Einstein. Photograph by Orren Jack Turner, c.1947.<br>FC4DXW Einstein. Portrait of Albert Einstein. Photograph by Orren Jack Turner, c.1947.

    Einstein’s handwritten calculations for theory of relativity to be auctioned for €3m

    The rare document, which records attempts to explain an anomaly in the orbit of Mercury, is ‘a fascinating dive into the mind of the greatest scientist of the 20th century’

July 2021

  • An artist’s impression of a supermassive black hole.

    Astronomers detect light behind black hole for first time

    Telescope picks up unexpected ‘luminous echoes’ – smaller, later and of different colour to bright flares

June 2021

  • Rainbow Swirl: artistic image inspired by a black hole neutron star merger event

    Gravitational waves from star-eating black holes detected on Earth

    Spacetime-altering shock waves came from massive neutron stars crashing into black holes millions of years ago
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