Walter Isaacson’s 704-page, 2.4-pound biography of Albert Einstein may not provide a solution to the great question that nagged the physicist to the day he died – but thanks to Isaacson's access to a ...

A famous "puzzle" from perhaps the world's most famous theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein, has been solved, after a missing page was found. The handwritten page was part of an appendix of a 1930 ...

Some of Albert Einstein's manuscript pages, currently on display in the Givat Ram Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Getty Images A famous “puzzle” from perhaps the world’s most famous theoretical ...

Website designer Stangroom (Is Your Neighbor a Zombie?) assembles an amusing collection of scientific conundrums to entertain and instruct the curious. He lays out his work like a puzzle book, with ...

A quiet lab in China held rare tension today. A long debate in physics finally met a real test. A classic challenge by Albert Einstein now faced new tools. A team used fresh methods to study old ideas ...

Some weeks ago, a reader wrote to me that Einstein puzzles were becoming frequent and repetitive in Probelmatics. While I appreciate the reader’s keenness on variety, the fact remains that Einstein ...

An optical illusion is a type of visual puzzle in which these puzzles create a misleading to our brain amd make miss leading to our brains' interpretations in the wrong way, and misleading the nature ...

“It’s sitting right in the hexagons. How many people are going to be kicking themselves around the world wondering, why didn’t I see that?” MARJORIE SENECHAL, a mathematician at Smith College, after ...

Regular readers of Problematics need no introduction to Einstein puzzles, nor the reason why they are also called zebra ...

The handwritten page — part of an appendix to a 1930 paper written by the Nobel winner on unified field theory — was discovered nestled in the 110-page trove Israel’s Hebrew University was given as a ...