On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes. Now, in the ...

Quite early in life, I picked up the intellectual habit of probing the intellects of great thinkers, and there are a whole tribe of them that I came into contact with right from my secondary to ...

Stephen Hawking, diagnosed with a motor neuron disease early in life, defied expectations to become a renowned cosmologist. He viewed the universe as governed by natural laws, not divine intent, and ...