Book bans in U.S. schools and libraries during the 2021-22 school year disproportionately targeted children's books written ...

Snell’s Law explains light refraction at material boundaries, a principle crucial to fiber optics, lens design, and advanced ...

This is not carelessness, but the possible discovery of a rare stellar event in the Andromeda galaxy. A red supergiant star ...

Penny’s 19th installment in the beloved Gamache series is a particularly haunting and relevant mystery novel. Yael van der Wouden’s novel, shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, is about ...

High Energy Electron Dispersion, Physics, and Technology,” is an outgrowth of work he has been pursuing for some 15 years in ...

A new graphic novel by a New Yorker cartoonist and Evanstonian transports us through time and space into Einstein's theory of relativity.

In the anthology A Random Walk in Science, D.A. Wright delights us with a fantastic essay titled A Theory of Ghosts. It starts from the assumption that ghosts can go through walls and doors but remain ...

A 16th-century drawing that has not been on display for more than 400 years because of its poor condition will finally be ...

The world can be a dark place at times, and we all need something light-hearted to entertain and distract us. Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, ...

Châtelet’s scientific contributions were appreciated by some, then forgotten by all. But redeeming her as a mind shouldn’t undermine her as a woman.

He shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, which underpins quantum computers and other technologies. With his book on the foundations ... quantum theory of light, which states ...