As the story is usually told, science began when some deep thinkers in ancient Greece decided to reject the popular mythological explanations for various natural phenomena. Those early philosophers ...

The introductory physics video lectures by Shankar, a renowned Yale physicist and educator, have been viewed over a million times. In this expanded version of his second book based on his online ...

When we say that the something is big—be it the visible universe or a human brain—we have to ask: Compared with what? The natural point of reference is the scope of everyday human life. This is the ...