Laments about the state of education are arguably as old as education is, or close to it. And they’ve always been a waste of time. That’s because knowledge isn’t bestowed on us as mu ...

Is it possible to tile a surface with a single shape in such a way that the pattern never repeats itself? In 2022, a mathematical solution to this 'Einstein problem' was discovered for the first time.

Chien-Shiung Wu’s trailblazing but largely forgotten achievement features in a recent profile of the influential physicist.

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

Even though the model is well known and recognized, what do we know about the behind-the-scenes aspects of this photo?

A decade ago, physicists using twin detectors in Washington State and Louisiana detected gravitational waves—subtle ripples ...

DURING Herr Hitler's speech to the Reichstag in the Kroll Opera House, Berlin, on January 30, it was announced that he had issued a decree forbidding Germans to accept any Nobel Prize in future.

On the death anniversary of Satyendra Nath Bose, the man behind Higg's boson or the 'God Particle', we revisit how Einstein stepped in to save his rejected paper, leading to the Bose-Einstein ...