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Einstein

Mona Lisa

Biographer Walter Isaacson, on Leonardo da Vinci’s art and science

Arts

“Leonardo was curious to know everything there was to know about everything you could know about creation, including how we fit into it,” Isaacson says.

einstein note

Einstein’s handwritten secrets for a happy life auctioned for $1.56 million

Culture
The work of Rainer Weiss and colleagues fundamentally alters our understanding of the universe.

Meet the Nobel Laureate who detected ripples in the fabric of space and time

Science
1919 eclipse

Why we still remember a ‘relatively’ important eclipse nearly a century later

Technology

Albert Einstein’s archives going online

Environment
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