The next time you get a letter, its stamp might have printed on it examples of one the greatest conceptual tools of modern physics. The tool is a kind of line drawing, and a bunch of those drawings ...

Widely considered one of the most brilliant physicists since Albert Einstein, Richard P. Feynman would have turned 100 this Friday, May 11. He was known for his work and innovation in theoretical ...

What was Richard Feynman's early life like? Richard Feynman was born in Queens, New York, on May 11, 1918. From a young age, he displayed an extraordinary curiosity and a keen aptitude for mathematics ...

As an ominous pool of crude oil slowly makes its way to the shores of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, word comes from Washington that President Obama has appointed a special blue-ribbon commission ...

Physicist Richard Feynman helped create the atomic bomb, shared a Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics, and helped figure out the source of the space shuttle Challenger explosion. But ...

Last week, we swooned over a brilliant mashup of words on beauty, honor, and curiosity by legendary iconoclastic physicist Richard Feynman. Today, we turn to Feynman-- a charming, affectionate, and ...

Richard Feynman was a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose contemporaries thought that he had the finest brain in physics. He was born on May 11, 1918, in Manhattan and grew up in Far Rockaway, N.Y., a ...

Elon Musk has stirred the scientific community by expressing his critical views on Richard Feynman’s physics lectures, making us wonder how the fictional genius, Sheldon Cooper, would respond to this ...

I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an ...