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When a Princeton Doctor stole Einstein's brain to uncover the secret of his genius: The bizarre tale of science and obsessionAlbert Einstein’s death in 1955 sparked a decades-long mystery when a rogue pathologist removed his brain without consent. The organ was sl...
US Teacher Appreciation Day 2025: Date, offers, freebies to celebrate educatorsUS Teacher Appreciation Day 2025 is being celebrated on May 6. However, the celebration will continue till May 9. To mark the National Teac...
Michael Bloomberg tops the list of America's biggest donors for the second year in a rowFormer New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg donated $3.7 billion to various causes in 2024, leading the Philanthropy 50 list for the secon...
What's Pi Day all about? Math, science, pies and morePi Day on March 14 celebrates the constant Pi, crucial in various fields. Larry Shaw initiated the tradition in San Francisco. NASA relies ...
Van Gogh's early masterpiece may steal the show at Dutch art fairAlso known as 'Head of an Old Peasant Woman with a White Cap', Van Gogh's early work, painted around 1884 has been put up for sale by M.S. ...
Wassily Kandinsky's masterpiece 'Murnau Mit Kirche II' fetches $45 mn at London auctionThe painting was recovered by the descendants of its owner, a German-Jew killed by the Nazis.
Wassily Kandinsky's 'Murnau Mit Kirche II' to be auctioned in London alongside Munch and Kupka'Murnau Mit Kirche II' was only identified a decade ago in a museum in Eindhoven, where it had been since 1951.
Israel to house the world's largest collection of manuscripts in an Einstein museumThe Israeli government decided to allocate millions of dollars for the museum.
Rare violin made by Antonio Stradivarius in 1714 fetches $15.3 mn at New York auctionVirtuoso Toscha Seidel used this violin to teach his famous student Albert Einstein.
New Apple museum opens in Warsaw, to bring 1,600 exhibits including Lisa, iMac, Power MacThe museum is housed in Fabryka Norblina, a red-brick factory from the early 19th century.
Swedish businessman gifts Einstein's first paper on relativity theory after Nobel Prize to museumPer Taube had bought the document at an auction for nearly $128K.
From Rabindranath Tagore to Kailash Satyarthi, when burglars aimed for the NobelIn 2016 a baul singer was arrested for stealing Tagore's Nobel medal and citations.
ETPanache@2: How Albert Einstein’s 'akkal' stacks up against a 'bhains'Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955. Since then, scientists and doctors have studied his brain. Fragments of the organ are at the Mutter...
NBA players chill with Neil deGrasse Tyson for some star talkThey watched 25-minute presentation, and spent an hour or so in a town hall style discussion. Elton Brand served as team spokesman, posing ...
New method may detect Albert Einstein's gravitational wavesA challenge is determining whether any star brightening astronomers detect is from gravitational waves or some other factor.
Godel, Einstein and proof for GodKurt Godel used to walk every day with his friend Albert Einstein at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton. Einstein told a colleagu...
Jeita Grotto: A contender for the seven wonders of natureOf all the famous sculptors in history, none impresses me than Nature! The stalactites and stalagmites at Jeita Grotto near Beirut are a fa...
- What lies beneath: Jeita Grotto, Beirut
The stalactites and stalagmites at Jeita Grotto near Beirut are a fascinating example of Nature’s painstaking craftsmanship.
- Rivetting facets of Lucerne
Visitors to Switzerland may well be forgiven for thinking that Lucerne is just the base for excursions to the fascinating Mt Titlis and Mt ...
- Travelog: Wax SRK for Paris museum
Grevin, the famous wax museum in Paris is adding a statue of Shah Rukh Khan which is expected to be unveiled next month.