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Albert Einstein

October 2025

  • Albert Einstein in 1951. Photograph: Arthur Sasse/Bettmann Archive

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

    This week, from 2022: 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. Read by Ruth Lass
    Podcast48:46

August 2025

  • Black and whit portrait of Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo (1910-1954)

    Pass notes
    Are you an otrovert? Why this personality type could be your greatest gift

    Feel like you don’t belong? Crave emotional independence? Constantly come up with original ideas? Like Frida Kahlo, Franz Kafka and Albert Einstein, you could have a distinct case of otroversion ...

April 2025

  • Black and white image of Albert Einstein with his secretary, Miss B Howard, and Commander Oliver L Lampson, who had arranged for an armed guard for the scientist at his holiday camp near Cromer(Original Caption) Professor Albert Einstein, famous scientist who sought refuge in England from Nazi persecution, is working out new intricate mathematical problems at the holiday camp of Commander Oliver L. Lampson, near Cromer. When it was reported that there was a price placed on the scientist's head, Lampson placed a guard of men armed with rifles around the camp. Here is Professor Einstein reading outside the little log cabin in which he is living and working. With him is his secretary, Miss B. Howard, and Commander Lampson. Behind them can be seen one of the armed guards.

    ‘Hitler’s hatred of the scientist had intensified. There was a price on his head’: the tragic story of Robert Einstein, Albert’s cousin

    After the famous physicist fled Germany in 1933, his cousin Robert moved his family to Italy, where they thought they had found safety. Then, the day before liberation, Nazis smashed down their front door …

March 2025

  • Gym users on exercise bikes

    People doing intense exercise experience time warp, study finds

  • Michael Faraday

    Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein

February 2025

  • The image shows a nearby galaxy, NGC 6505, surrounded by a perfect circle of light

    Euclid telescope captures Einstein ring revealing warping of space

    Dazzling image shows galaxy more than 4bn light years away, whose starlight has been bent due to gravity

August 2024

  • The Mad Hatter's Tea Party, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

    The Guardian view on the beauty of numbers: new ways of seeing reality

    Editorial: Maths is a language that has helped humanity lay bare the mysteries of the universe

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.
    Podcast32:28

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
    Podcast46:42

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

    Brief letters: Sexist behaviour | Lib Dems and Tories | Making the Green party count | Gandhi T-shirt | Nature springs back
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