In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetism. In his Nobel lecture, ...

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In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

The once-promising physics student was let go from Portugal’s premier engineering school and withdrew from a Brown University grad program three years later.

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Claudio Neves Valente’s academic career foundered, while his one-time classmate, Nuno Loureiro, flourished as a physics ...

A comprehensive guide to how the prequel echoed its predecessor — from blink-and-you-miss-them callbacks to major reveals ...

Decades ago, I attended a lecture by the renowned conservationist Edward O. Wilson. He is known for his prediction that, during the 21st century, humankind will encounter a "bottleneck" of resource ...

Just before Thanksgiving, Claudio Neves Valente checked into a Boston hotel and traveled to Brown University, where he had studied physics 25 years earlier. The drive to ...

An autopsy has found that the man suspected in last weekend's attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a ...