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In 1995, The Face magazine asked Stephen Hawking if he knew the formula for time travel. The magazine received this pithy fax back from the physicist. More »
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Have you got a knack for electronics and computers, a penchant for public speaking, and a strong desire to work for one of the most brilliant scientists of our time? If so, have we got some news for you. More »
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Fringe has always been full of riddles and mysteries, but now our favorite weird-science show is one giant paradox. How did Peter change history, and what are the repercussions? We may find out more in tonight's episode — but for now, here's a brilliant explanation of what we know about time travel in the real world, and how Fringe plays with the space-time continuum. Stephen Cass, senior editor with the Technology Review, takes us inside Fringe's time paradoxes, in an excerpt from the new book Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists, edited by Kevin R. Grazier. More »
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The latest Symphony of Science music video is out, and it's beautiful! Sing along with Brian Cox, Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman to the new auto-tuned jam, "The Quantum World." More »
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For years, scientists have recognized that many of the world's most dangerous diseases have an underlying genetic component. Even your susceptibility to conditions like heart disease and lung cancer, diseases closely tied to lifestyle factors like smoking and lack of exercise, are believed to be heavily influenced by your genetic makeup. More »
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From Darwin and Einstein to Hawking and Sagan, here are twenty-five amazing books written by world-famous scientists. These are legendary texts, popular science explainers, personal memoirs, and controversial new theories, and they're all enduring monuments to the power of science. More »
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Brickcon 2010 invaded Seattle this weekend, and intrepid Lego enthusiasts crafted oodles of science fiction out of plastic brick. Check out Legofied renditions of the Watchmen, the mysterious corpse from Alien, and a cult of Stephen Hawking worshippers. More »
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Yes, we've managed to create a black hole...or at least the optical equivalent of a black hole's extreme, light-trapping properties thanks to an ingenious combination of lasers and glass. Best of all, it offers proof of Stephen Hawking's famous radiation. More »
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White holes are basically black holes in reverse: They eject all the matter sucked into a black hole. We've never observed one, and most astrophysicists suspect they don't exist - all because they're not the exact opposite of black holes. More »
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In his eponymous Discovery Channel series, Stephen Hawking says that time travel is totally theoretically possible. Here are the three most straightforward ways to achieve it. More »
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The world's most famous living scientist has confirmed what science fiction filmmakers have postulated since the beginning of cinema: There is life out there in the cosmos, and it would most likely smash us to atoms. More »
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The Discovery Channel is teaming with Stephen Hawking for a new multi-million dollar series explaining how the universe works. As an added bonus for the network, they get to piss off their rivals doing so. More »
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The Planet Express gang is back in action in the trailer for their next direct-to-DVD movie, Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs. Bender encounters another universe, and immediately starts taunting its inhabitants, which unleashes a giant creature on Earth. The monster starts up a new religion (where Fry is the leader) and convinces all of the humans to move away from Earth (leaving the streets to the robots). All the animated favorites return along with a few newbies, with voice cameos from David Cross, Stephen Hawking, Brittany Murphy and Dan Castellaneta. More »
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