Albert Einstein

Right again, Einstein! Study shows how antimatter responds to gravity

Under current theory, the Big Bang explosion that initiated the universe should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter. This, however, does not seem to be the case.

27/09/2023
Albert Einstein

Revealed in a letter: Albert Einstein's secret plan to save Jewish professor from Nazi Germany

The letter reveals Einstein's desperate appeal to Scottish philosopher Sir William David Ross to aid in the rescue of a Jewish German philosopher targeted by Nazis.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble telescope captures galaxy clusters merging

Gravitational lensing has the practical effect of a magnifying glass, microscope, or binoculars, and enables scientists to observe celestial bodies that would otherwise be too distant to discern.

Einstein’s letter rebuking creationism up for auction

The letter is valued to be worth $125,000 USD (approximately 451,500 NIS). Other letters from the great scientist have fetched $3 million USD at auction.

At the heart of the film ‘Oppenheimer’ is a clash between real-life Jews

The animosity between Strauss and Oppenheimer had probably several different dimensions.

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
17/07/2023

Scientists discover that universe is awash in gravitational waves

The discovery was announced seven years after researchers announced that they had first detected the existence of gravitational waves generated by two distant black holes

By REUTERS
29/06/2023

Jerusalem's Hebrew University to showcase Albert Einstein to the world

Exactly a century after the great scientist visited the Hebrew University, the cornerstone is laid for a museum that will shine a spotlight on Albert Einstein.

It’s all relative: New Einstein museum will take visitors back in time

Titled the Einstein House, the new museum would deepen the scientist’s longstanding ties with the university.

Israel recruits the Einstein name to become a 'popular brand' worldwide

SCIENCE AFFAIRS: After years of effort, an Albert Einstein museum will finally be built in Jerusalem.

In ‘Oppenheimer’ trailer, the atomic bomb is born – and Einstein weeps

Oppenheimer and his team of scientists tested the weapon there before it was eventually dropped on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
11/05/2023
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