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 ...

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 ...

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

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Some researchers would have us believe that the reason for Albert Einstein’s remarkable genius was his ample endowment of corpus callosum -- the large fiber tract that, at least in most of us, ...

The curious fate of a genius's mind The genius of Albert Einstein never ceases to allure. Following his autopsy in 1955, Einstein's brain is said to have been sliced and scattered among researchers ...

Could the preserved brain of Albert Einstein, sliced into 240 blocks and stored since his death in 1955, hold clues to the cellular basis of genius? Could long-frozen cancer tissues, tucked away in ...

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 ...