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God, Einstein And Games Of Chance

April 24, 2013 • The quantum world is mysterious. It behaves in ways that just don't match up with what we see in the larger world. Commentator Marcelo Gleiser probes the space between what we see and what we know in search of a bridge between both realities.

Scientists Get A New Look At Einstein's Brain

Pathologist Thomas Harvey took dozens of photos of Einstein's brain. This one shows that Einstein's prefrontal cortex (associated with higher cognition and memory) is unusually convoluted. On the right side of the brain there are four large ridges, where most people have only three. Brain(2012)/National Museum of Health and Medicine hide caption

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Scientists Get A New Look At Einstein's Brain

November 23, 2012 • What made Einstein a genius? Maybe his weirdly curvy brain had something to do with it. Scientists have recently analyzed photos from the 1950s to try to figure out what made the genius tick.

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Crying For Einstein, Living For Shakespeare

August 6, 2012 • Would you rather be a great scientist or a great artist? What knowledge do you thirst for most? Is it the grounded examinations of facts and reality that science offers, or the wild, unpredictable adventures of the human soul?

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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Voyage To The Center Of A Black Hole

June 20, 2012 • What happens inside a black hole? Do the laws of Nature go haywire? A new NASA mission may shed some light into Nature's most enigmatic objects.

Brilliant Idea: More Than 80,000 Of Einstein's Documents Going Online

A detail from what is thought to be one of only three existing manuscripts containing Einstein's most famous formula about the relationship between energy, mass and the speed of light — in his handwriting. Sean Carberry/NPR hide caption

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Brilliant Idea: More Than 80,000 Of Einstein's Documents Going Online

March 19, 2012 • They include work related to his most famous formula — E=mc² — and personal papers, such as letters to and from his former mistresses.

Brilliant Idea: More Than 80,000 Of Einstein's Documents Going Online

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New Tests Support Claim That Speed Of Light's Been Broken

November 18, 2011 • Scientists in Italy say they've got more evidence. If so, it challenges Einstein's theory of relativity.