What would be the ultimate solution to the energy problems of an advanced civilization? Renowned British American physicist Freeman Dyson theorized it would be a shell made up of mirrors or solar ...

Dyson spheres, the hypothetical mega-structures that advanced alien civilizations might use to enclose a star and harness its energy, suffer from a fatal flaw: They are catastrophically unstable. But ...

With solar wind harvesters being outlined as theoretical projects, we imagine the possibility of squeezing the Sun's breath ...

In March 2009, The New York Times wrote a lengthy piece about renowned physicist Freeman Dyson, then 85. Four years earlier, ...

Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—helped invent modern physics. Not bound by disciplinary divisions, he went on to explore foundational topics in mathematics, ...

Most people's picture of a Dyson sphere looks like the one in Star Trek: The Next Generation, which looks so far-fetched and massive it's almost easier to believe in warp drives and teleporters.

“Some mathematicians are birds, others are frogs,” Dr. Dyson once wrote. He was both. By Siobhan Roberts After an early breakthrough on light and matter, he became a writer who challenged climate ...

Forever-young physicist Freeman Dyson, now 83, has long been beloved by scifi writers for his extremely fucking cool ideas. He invented the Dyson Sphere, featured in a Star Trek: TNG episode, where ...

One would think that Dyson's observations would cause at lease some of the most ardent climate change alarmists to say, "Dyson is brilliant. What does he see that I don't? If one of the world's ...