A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on Albert Einstein and the Responsibility of the Scientist by Walter Isaacson (primary source) and various biographers. KS2 Non-fiction.

An international team including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Sir Roger Penrose has observed a long-predicted effect of gravity on a falling quantum object for the first time. The result ...

Einstein’s abandoned cosmological constant made a spectacular comeback when astronomers discovered that the universe’s expansion is accelerating. It now sits at the heart of our best cosmological ...

For years, people online have shared an alleged fact: Albert Einstein married one of his cousins. For example, on Aug. 3, 2026, a TikTok user shared a video (archived) showing three people reacting ...

The “hat” tile is a mathematical wonder. Discovered by amateur mathematician David Smith in 2022, it can be used to cover every square inch of an endless bathroom floor (or any other surface) without ...

What if wormholes were never cosmic tunnels at all? New research suggests Einstein and Rosen’s famous “bridge” may actually reveal something even stranger: time itself could flow in two directions at ...

One and a half million words was the estimated output of some 3,000 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and associated groups who met last week in Pittsburgh. They read ...

Little Beaver Town, a theme park in Albuquerque inspired by Route 66 nostalgia, opened in 1961 but closed just two years later due to waning interest and accessibility challenges. Roland Penttila, a ...

Amanda Heidt is a freelance writer and editor in Moab, Utah. On 23 February, academics across the world took to social media to decry the death of education as we know it. The day before, a technology ...

A new open-source AI tool is redefining what AI assistance in education looks like. Einstein, created by the startup Companion, goes beyond just generating answers for homework assignments. It does it ...

As Albert Einstein wrote elegantly about our experience of time and space, he also devoted his days to the process of social transformation: the question of how one world becomes another. He was ...