String Theory

Monk E. Mind uses the rational scientific method to expose mainstream "scientific" nonsense, and present an underlying physical mechanism for all of reality....

In 2013 scientists made a remarkable discovery that was hailed worldwide as a triumph of human ingenuity. Using a massive machine called a particle accelerator....

For hundreds of years, scientists of quantum physics have been telling things that looked unrealistic at the time they were living in. These scientists understood that everything is energy and discovered the most unbelievable laws that you are probably already familiar with....

In the ever-fascinating Why? Mario Livio interviewed scientists in several fields to explore the nature of curiosity....

Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and writer who was commonly seen as one of the best mathematicians, physicists, and most prominent researchers of perpetuity. He was hailed as a natural theorist in his time....

In the 16th century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared to go against the establishment by proposing that Earth rotates around the Sun....

The epic story of the invention of a global network of weights, scales, and instruments for measurement....

A Degree in a Book: Cosmology is the perfect introduction to cosmology, astronomy, and astrophysics, written by one of NASA's leading astronomers and educators. Filled with helpful diagrams, suggestions for further reading and easily digestible history sections....

A fatal flaw in the most fundamental model of nature has been overlooked for so long that many people do not question it. The transverse wave model of photons has failed at almost every prediction its proponents made....

The cycle of day and night and the cycle of seasons are two familiar natural cycles around which many human activities are organized. But is there a third natural cycle of importance for us humans? Nature's Third Cycle discusses the fascinating science behind the sunspot cycle....

Everyone recognises the famous physicist with the wild, white hair. But what sort of person was the young Albert Einstein, before he became universally acclaimed as the archetypal genius? Find out....

An intimate exploratory tour of Stephen Hawking's office, providing a unique insight into the mind of a genius, the things that inspired him and explanations of his seminal theories.

In recent years, scientists have hypothesized life-forms that can only be called "weird"....

Many people have difficulty figuring out the difference between science, borderline science, and just plain nonsense....

The tale of two of America's foremost physicists, Robert Millikan (1868-1953) and Arthur Compton (1892-1962), who found themselves locked in an intense, often deeply personal, conflict about cosmic rays.

It takes a certain amount of courage to step beyond ones day-to-day experiments and look at the big picture....

Winner of the IgNobel Prize in physics and the 2004 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Len Fisher showed just how much fun science can be....

Were ancient Greek philosophers right about reality being only an illusion? What was really the biggest blunder of Einstein's life? Is everything we've been taught about the universe incorrect?

Covers everything from the nature of scientific inquiry, experimenter's regress, and why the dinosaurs were so big, to relativity, the Higgs boson, and the Rope Hypothesis....

Alan Gross reveals the modern-day sublime in popular science. He tells how the great popular scientists of our time evoke the sublime in response to fundamental questions about the universe and the origin of life....