If you've ever wondered what the brain of a genius looks like, make your way to Philadelphia. There, the public can view for the first time 46 slivers of the brain of Albert Einstein, the theoretical ...

Following his death in 1955, Albert Einstein's brain was removed, cut into 240 pieces and slowly distributed to scientists around the world. But where is Einstein's brain now? When you purchase ...

A revolutionary RNA mapping method could let us learn from history’s greatest thinkers—starting with Einstein himself.

Microscopically thin sections of Albert Einstein’s brain are now on display at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, Md., as part of an installation titled “What Can We Learn from ...

Our news director is not a scientist, but he plays one on social media. And not just any scientist: a Nobel laureate in physics (1922), Time magazine’s Person of the (last) Century, the most famous ...

In the 55 years since Albert Einstein's death, many scientists have tried to figure out what made him so smart. But no one tried harder than a pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who lost his job and his ...

Albert Einstein, the iconic physicist whose name has become synonymous with genius, left an indelible mark on the landscape of scientific inquiry. Yet, perhaps equally remarkable is the journey his ...

On one of the last days of his life, Albert Einstein was busy at his desk. He was working on a national television address marking Israel’s seventh anniversary as a sovereign nation and Jewish ...

The technological game welcomed a new candidate, as Chinese technology developed a system to analyze biological matter. The new technique was an advanced RNA-mapping technology known as Stereo-seq V2.

The curious fate of a genius's mind The genius of Albert Einstein never ceases to allure. Following his autopsy in 1955, Einstein's brain is said to have been sliced and scattered among researchers ...