When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986 it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight The deaths of seven astronauts including the first teacher in space Christa ...

Richard Feynman is one of the most iconic, influential and inspiring scientists of the 20th century. He helped design the atomic bomb, solved the mystery of the Challenger Shuttle catastrophe and ...

Richard Feynman (1918-88) was one of the most remarkable and gifted theoretical physicists of any generation. He was also known as the 'Great Explainer' because of his passion for helping non ...

Feynman's lecture was, in truth, a very minor incident in his brilliant career, but if we were to look for the source of its later power, the starting point must be the figure of Feynman himself.

In the tight little world of U.S. science, Caltech’s Richard P. Feynman, 42, is almost as famed for far-out humor as for his professional accomplishments. One of the nation’s most gifted ...