physics

Legendary physicist and futurist Freeman Dyson has left us at the ripe old age of 96. While his field was physics and particularly the standard model of particle physics, he was also a tireless speculator on topics like possible futures and intelligence. SF fans know him best, perhaps, for the...

That, my friends, is a black hole. A multinational team of physicists and astronomers have taken our first direct (well, as direct as possible) image of a black hole. Basically, the black hole itself is invisible due to being basically just a huge distortion in space-time that sucks in all the...

The Nobel Prize in physics came out and one of the three recipients is a Canadian and is the first woman to receive the physics prize in 55 years. Dr. Donna Strickland is an associate prof teaching and doing research at my alma mater, the University of Waterloo. Canadian among trio awarded...

It had to happen sooner or later. He's been beating the odds for decades just by being alive. Brilliant man who was nonetheless able to communicate that brilliance to the public. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time, dead at 76