In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

Benjamin Franklin is best known as a Founding Father of the United States, with historians often referring to the Boston-born Franklin as the First American. Franklin lived in era where men and women ...

QUANTUM theory originated in the work of Prof. Max Planck of Berlin in the year 1900. It is significant that the new theory arose out of a discrepancy between theory and experiment in a somewhat ...

Researchers developed a general theory showing how electric fields can permanently switch magnetic states in materials that have both electric and magnetic properties, known as multiferroics, by ...

THE idea that the sun sends out a large amount of Becquerel rays has found considerable support in the scientific world, and has been used to explain a number of difficulties connected with cosmical ...

During the latter part of the 20th century, string theory was put forward as a unifying theory of physics foundations. String theory has not, however, fulfilled expectations. That is why we are of the ...