J. Robert Oppenheimer

Scientists at MIT just launched a new search for the waves of the Big Bang rippling through the universe. The plan is for a huge, sensitive, new-generation gravitational-wave detector. Over the following three years, the National Science Foundation will...

"Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this, he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity," reads the opening caption of director Christopher Nolan's blockbuster movie Oppenheimer. Based on the true story of J....

Next to watching a Marx Brothers movie, nothing is as entertaining these days as watching Greece's New Democracy Capitalists running around like Keystone Cops trying to figure out who's in charge and who's doing what to who and why...