Albert Einstein didn’t plan to donate his brain to science. In fact, he requested his entire body be cremated and the ashes scattered secretly. But when the theoretical physicist died on April 18, ...

Albert Einstein was arguably the most famous scientist of the 20th century. Most people are familiar with his iconic E=mc^2 equation, but his life and work encompassed so much more than that. For ...

On one of the last days of his life, Albert Einstein was busy at his desk. He was working on a national television address marking Israel's seventh anniversary as a sovereign nation and Jewish ...

The most highly-prized brain in Princeton does not belong to a University student, or even a professor. It sits inside two glass cookie jars in Princeton Medical Center on Witherspoon Street. And a ...

Albert Einstein’s death in 1955 set off an extraordinary and ethically fraught afterlife for his brain, secretly removed by a hospital pathologist and kept for decades. Intended as a scientific quest, ...

The bizarre yet true story behind the theft of brain of the world's most famous scientist. The bizarre yet true story of the Princeton Hospital pathologist who in 1955 stole Albert Einstein's brain ...

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The debate over right brain-left brain lateralization has raged on for decades. A 2013 study found Albert Einstein's brilliance may be linked to the fact that his brain hemispheres were extremely well ...

The brain that revolutionized physics now can be downloaded as an app for $9.99. But it won't help you win at Angry Birds. While Albert Einstein's genius isn't included, an exclusive iPad application ...

Following his death in 1955, Albert Einstein's brain was removed, cut into 240 pieces and slowly distributed to scientists around the world. But where is Einstein's brain now? When you purchase ...

Albert Einstein died on 18 April 1955, aged 76. His death marked the end of one of the most influential scientific lives in history. It also marked the beginning of a long, unsettled afterlife for his ...