The first telescopes refracted light, and today reflectors dominate, but there is a third way to make light focus, and it ...

We are first taken back to the dawn of the 20th century and shown how the evolution of architectural acoustics as a ...

Light was long considered to be a wave, exhibiting the phenomenon of interference in which ripples like those in water waves ...

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than ...

A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better. By Jennifer Szalai Before she published “To Kill a ...

By Alexandra Jacobs A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, she went on to write about “hookup culture” and young women’s sexual experiences for The Washington Post and in a best-selling book.

While the universe has been expanding ever since its first moments, physicists reserve the term “inflation” only for the rapid, exponential expansion governed by unknown physics at the start ...

Here’s how it works. Seeing as the game is now over 50 years old, it's hard to narrow down the best D&D books. There are quite literally enough to fill a small library these days, so which ones ...

Atomic and molecular physics it the study of the properties, dynamics and interactions of the basic (but not fundamental) building blocks of matter. A crucial component of this is understanding ...

Condensed-matter physics is the study of substances in their solid state. This includes the investigation of both crystalline solids in which the atoms are positioned on a repeating three ...

It's science for everyone, using a lot of creativity and a little humor. Join hosts Emily Kwong and Regina Barber for science on a different wavelength.

Kelsey McKinney’s book, You Didn’t Hear This From Me, whirls through some good examples of gossip in culture, but overstates its importance ...