Let us apply principle the first: There are not many books that can make you feel small — infinitesimal, even — and not trouble your internal emotional architecture in the slightest. Principle the ...

Physicists and educationalists have many theories about why so few girls study physics. Valerie Jamieson goes back to school and asks female pupils what they really think. Vanessa Bennett, Callie ...

Reyna Pratt spends her days preparing high school students in Virginia for an increasingly competitive world. They learn biology, algebra, English composition, world history, and world cultures. “I ...

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.

A brief attempt to engage readers in the biggest questions of physics dwells on beauty and wonder Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli, Riverhead Books, 96 pages, $18 In the early 1960s, ...

Notre Dame’s College of Science will hold its fifth annual Christmas Lecture at The Bendix Arena at The Century Center from 6 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As the land is to the sea, a foothold in an immensity, so the Earth is to the cosmos. No wonder some scientists are ...