Following the death of Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time is once again on the bestseller lists. But what if you want more? Amanda Gefter (my co-host for the …
In a special episode of BookLab, Amanda Gefter and I look back at Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, 30 years after its publication. (Available on iTunes or on …
The world has lost a great mind with the death of physicist Stephen Hawking. His ideas were famously inpenetrable, at least for the non-specialist — but his goal, in fact, …
Einstein was a genius — but he was also human. Occasionally, he slipped up. In this feature for NBCnews.com, I look at three of Einstein's biggest mistakes.
Science is rooted in "empiricism" — the idea that the only way to learn about nature is via experiment and observation. But what if you could gain new knowledge just …