Albert Einstein

This week marks the anniversary of the total solar eclipse in which Einstein correctly predicted stars in the Pleaides cluster would shift position thanks to the curving of space. When it happened, he gained instant worldwide fame. But there remain many contradictory ideas about that great man.

In sci-fi movies, a nerdy scientist might transport himself to another dimension. In popular fiction, to qualify as another dimension means a realm must be something beyond the four dimensions of everyday reality, and thus be totally inaccessible, like public restrooms in New York. But might they really exist?

"Typhoid Mary" - a new play by Mark St. Germain - is playing at Barrington Stage Company's St. Germain Stage in Pittsfield, MA through June 16.The play…

Albert Einstein and the people around him — many of whom shaped science history — are getting a fresh look on the new National Geographic series Genius.…