3 Win Nobel Prize in Physics for Work to Understand Cosmos

DAVID KEYTON / The Associated Press Oct 8, 2019 Cosmologist James Peeples is credited with creating theoretical framework about the universe while two Swiss scientists found exoplanet. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

How Can a Scientist Make Sense of the Religious Impulse?

Steven Gimbel Apr 6, 2018 Physicist Alan Lightman ponders this and other questions in his new book, "Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Inside Chernobyl: A Legacy of Ruin

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 26, 2016 Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer was the first American journalist to enter the surviving power plant in the former Soviet Union On the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster, he recounts his experience in a Los Angeles Times column first published on April 9, 1987 Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer was the first American journalist to enter the surviving power plant in the former Soviet Union. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

‘When it Comes to Moral Choices, Outstanding Physicists Are Very Ordinary’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 26, 2015 Philip Ball’s new book, “Serving the Reich,” considers how “some of the great 20th century physicists … stayed in Germany throughout the thirties, and in some cases throughout” World War II. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Black Hole

By Margaret Wertheim Jun 20, 2015 Black holes have been posited as the basis of time machines, gateways to other universes and the seeds from which baby universes are born. Yet the new book "Black Hole" shows that at every step in its intellectual history, the concept of black holes has been resisted tooth and nail by physicists. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Introducing ‘Primordial Gravitational Waves’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 18, 2014 Scientists are announcing a "whole new era" of physics with the possible detection of "fingerprints of the big bang in gravitational waves on the whole universe." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Neil deGrasse Tyson and the New ‘Cosmos’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 12, 2014 Almost 35 years after the original "Cosmos" ignited the imaginations of English-speaking audiences, Neil deGrasse Tyson, whom journalist Bill Moyers describes as "America's most popular scientist," has updated the series for a new generation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Watch: Teacher Delivers Incredible Lecture to Students on Meaning of Life

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jan 10, 2013 High school teacher Jeffrey Wright has turned his own life experience parenting a special needs child into a lecture that profoundly impacts his students' lives. “When you start talking about physics, you start to wonder, ‘What is the purpose of it all?’ he says. “Kids started coming to me and asking me those ultimate questions." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Little Boson That Wasn’t

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 15, 2012 Physicists worldwide are majorly bummed to learn that the new particle discovered this year that supposedly meant a big change in the way we understand the building blocks of our universe is merely “the simplest -- and most boring -- variety of Higgs boson.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Speed of Light Upset May Be Result of Loose Wire

Staff / Truthdig Feb 23, 2012 Remember the announcement that shocked the physics world last September? Scientists claimed to have measured a neutrino traveling faster than the speed of light -- a feat that would have undone Einstein, if, that is, the measurement proves not to have been the result of a bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer, as researchers now suspect. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Chasing Down the ‘God Particle’

Staff / Truthdig Dec 13, 2011 Do you know the story of the Higgs boson? It is also called the "God particle" in scientific circles, although certain conservatives would probably not approve, and it has been a kind of physicists' Holy Grail for decades. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Stephen Hawking Says Creation Was Godless, Inevitable

Staff / Truthdig Sep 2, 2010 In his new book, the famed physicist dismisses the notion, sometimes peddled by scientists, that a deity was involved with the big bang: "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )