In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a 33-year-old software engineer at CERN, Europe’s largest Physics Laboratory, was frustrated with how the internet would only enable sharing of informat... Read more
A good scientist must be willing to be wrong. In 1964, the occasionally enigmatic but always energetic physicist, Dr. Richard Feynman gave a lecture at Cornell University to a packed hall of... Read more
New finding could help circuits keep shrinking In 1959 physicist Richard Feynman issued a famed address at a meeting of the American Physical Society, a talk entitled “There... Read more
IF YOU ONLY HAD A SINGLE STATEMENT TO PASS ON TO OTHERS SUMMARIZING THE MOST VITAL LESSON TO BE DRAWN FROM YOUR WORK, WHAT WOULD IT BE? In his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman pre... Read more
Guojun Liu has discovered a way to use nanotechnology to reduce friction in automobile engines and machines. “The technology should be useful in a wide range of machineries other than... Read more