Albert Einstein's brain has crossed the Atlantic for the first time. It's a journey that one of the 20th century's greatest minds never intended. Before Einstein died 57 years ago, he wrote in his ...

Across cultures and eras, human remains have held powerful spiritual and symbolic significance. The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying a king’s body ensured his ascent to the gods. The ...

Whether it be through their art or mathematical formulas, the great minds of the past—like Sappho, Michelangelo, and Albert Einstein—have deeply influenced our understanding of the world around us.

Vladimir Lenin lies in a mausoleum in Red Square in Moscow in a preserved state. But he has no brain. That’s because the Soviet government had it removed after he died in 1924. They wanted to have the ...

The technological game welcomed a new candidate, as Chinese technology developed a system to analyze biological matter. The new technique was an advanced RNA-mapping technology known as Stereo-seq V2.

(via SciShow) After Albert Einstein died, researchers studied his brain exhaustively, trying to find the source of his genius. Here are their findings.