It is important to support victims of bullying in academic life and help them become less dependent on potential bullies
Salim Abdool Karim joins Newton, Hawking and Einstein as a member of an extraordinary society
Instead of relating to the mass of a singular physical object, the kilogram will now be defined in terms of the Planck constant
To stay abreast in these confusing times, the public service must be empowered to act
A handwritten letter from Albert Einstein about his thoughts on God, religion and his search for meaning is to go on sale in New York
The brain that revolutionised physics now can be downloaded as an app for $9.99. But it won’t help you win at Angry Birds.
Albert Einstein’s archives — from personal letters to notebooks scribbled with his ground-breaking research — are going online for the first time.
British scientist Stephen Hawking missed a scientific debate marking his 70th birthday as he was only discharged from hospital two days earlier.
A discovery that a sub-atomic particle seemed to move faster than the speed of light has scientists rethinking one of the foundations of physics.
Plans to include an Adolf Hitler figure in the new Berlin branch of Madame Tussauds wax museum are being condemned by critics, who say displaying the dictator is tasteless and…
He’s been described as science’s first real rock star and the most famous physicist never to win a Nobel Prize. He knows black holes and p-branes inside out and he’s headed for…
Bobby Fischer, who died on January 17 aged 64, was a high school dropout who may have been the greatest chess player of all time, but ended his life in eccentric seclusion. The…
Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died of an unspecified illness, a spokesperson for the late champion said on Friday. He was 64. Fischer, who beat Russian Boris…
Google is working on a new internet encyclopedia that will consist of material submitted by people who want to be identified as experts and possibly profit from their knowledge.…
David Hanson has two little Zenos to care for these days. There’s his 18-month-old son Zeno, who prattles and smiles as he bounds through his father’s cramped office. Then there…
