His two early papers “What Numbers Could Not Be” (1965) and “Mathematical Truth” (1973) became instant classics. The second ...

Albert Einstein was leaving his birthday party at the Princeton Club when United Press International photographer Arthur Sasse yelled for the physicist to smile. Einstein impishly stuck out his tongue ...

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Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of what the universe looked like in the moments before it rapidly changed ...

Professor James Binney, from the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, joins the likes of Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein ... including a position at Princeton University, Professor ...

The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than ever before. What does it mean? How is this determined? Can the clock be wound back?

Three public lectures at the University of Wyoming this semester will promote free expression, intellectual freedom and constructive dialogue, starting later this month.

Astronomers have pinpointed an FRB outside a dead galaxy for the first time, challenging existing models that link FRBs to star-forming regions. Using the CHIME/FRB Outriggers, they suspect the burst ...

Sebastian Currier’s “Mysterium” is based on the husband-and-wife team of scientist Robbert Dijkgraaf and novelist Pia de Jong.