The concept of symmetry is rooted in daily life, apparent in the butterflies that migrate each spring, the buildings where we work and the music we play. But how did symmetry become so fundamental to ...

Drexel University physicist David Goldberg will speak Saturday, Nov 16 for the Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking. Meetings are held at 2 pm at the Community College of Philadelphia’s Main ...

A set of seven talks by legendary, Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman is now available online, free of charge--and through a much more versatile application than YouTube. Microsoft Research has ...

A free public presentation on “Symmetry in Culture and in Science” will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Dana Lecture Hall in Moravian College’s Collier Hall of Science, Main and Locust streets. The ...

THAT a second edition of this inspiring treatise on crystallography has been issued so soon—the first edition was reviewed in NATURE for June 6, 1918 —is sufficient guarantee of its worth.

Bill Gates recently bought the rights to a series of lectures by legendary Caltech physicist Richard Feynman. The former Microsoft head's purchase shows that the cultural and scientific legacy of ...