3 win Nobel for subatomic physics research

Two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.

3 win Nobel for subatomic physics research

Two Japanese scientists and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for theoretical advances that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.

Physicist: Bolt could have run 9.55 in Beijing

A physicist has done the math, and says Usain Bolt could have run the 100-meter Olympic final in 9.55 seconds if he had not slowed down to showboat.

Top physicist to quit ‘amateur’ Britain after Stephen Hawking snub

One of the leading theoretical physicists in Britain is to leave for Canada, having failed to receive funding for his plan to set up an institute in honour of Stephen Hawking, his friend and colleague. Neil Turok, professor of mathematical physics at Cambridge University, will now realise his ambition at the Perimeter Institute in Ontario.

Pope, physicist Hawking at evolution gathering

Pope Benedict told a gathering of scientists including the British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Friday that there was no contradiction between believing in God and empirical science.

A flood of fossils

John Martin portrayed the collapse of civilizations, or the onslaught of the Deluge, as vast panoramas with a slightly hysterical veracity bordering on kitsch. In his early nineteenth-century renditions of the dramatic past, cowering crowds quake with terror before tidal waves or massacring invaders, all lit by lurid lightning or dazzling sunbeams slicing through clouds. Thanks to their extensive reproduction as mezzotints, his images achieved great popularity. He was the perfect artist to illustrate the age of monsters.