I just did a fun interview with Lawrence Krauss for Point of Inquiry--airing Monday--and to prepare, I got to read his new scientific biography of Richard Feynman, ...

A life-size cardboard figure of Spock, a blow-up alien and a Star Trek Barbie and Ken are just a few of the decorations in Professor Lawrence Krauss’ office. A charmingly cluttered nerd’s paradise ...

Interesting interview of Steve Hsu. I'll reproduce the part about Feynman: 3. Is it true Feynman's IQ score was only 125? Feynman was universally regarded as one of the fastest thinking and most ...

At a hearing of the presidential commission investigating the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster, Richard Feynman conducted an experiment of sorts in the media-packed room. The Caltech physicist ...

For anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to learn from a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, you’re in luck: You can read physicist Richard Feynman’s most famous lectures online for free.

We think great scientists know so much, but really, they know very little. "Science," said the physicist Richard Feynman, "is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Even the most famous "experts," ...

Her mother told her that women’s brains “can’t do science.” She would prove her mother very wrong. By Katharine Q. Seelye Joan Feynman grew up in the shadow of her older brother, the brilliant ...

Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the ...