Why do magnets attract and repel each other? In this episode, we will explain the mechanism of magnets in an ...

An apple falling from a tree and the moon orbiting in the night sky. Newton explained these seemingly unrelated phenomena ...

In his new book, Quantum Man, physicist and writer Lawrence M. Krauss describes the scientific contributions, and unique mind, of Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman, whom he calls "perhaps the ...

I have a confession: I didn't actually know a whole lot about Richard Feynman. Well, okay, I knew a bit about his role at Los Alamos from a history class, and I knew a little about his outsized ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. In the years prior to World War II, physics was in an odd, ...

Richard Feynman quotes get thrown around a whole lot. And it’s true, he has a lot of good ones, like the bit about no physicist really, truly understanding quantum mechanics. I use that one probably ...

Norton. 511 pp. $29.95 Anyone who writes knows how difficult it is to come up with a good title. Lynne Truss published a moderately enjoyable ramble about punctuation but somehow had the genius to ...

On a December day, Richard Feynman gave a fun little lecture at Caltech — and dreamed up an entirely new field of physics. During the talk, entitled "Plenty of room at the bottom," he described the ...

Richard Feynman could turn almost anything into physics and math. Even lunch. One day in the late 1970s, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist sat in a Thai restaurant in Glendale, California, with his ...