Sometimes inspiration can strike suddenly. On October 16th, 1843, while walking along the Royal Canal from Dunsink Observatory to the Royal Irish Academy, William Rowan Hamilton had a flash of ...

Roger Penrose on "Before the Big Bang" and Frank Wilczek on "Anticipating A New Golden Age" Are Now Available to View Online Sir Roger Penrose and Prof. Frank Wilczek share their scientific views in ...

Nothing in science is as mysterious as quantum mechanics--except, perhaps, the mechanics of the mind. Now genius-of-all-trades Roger Penrose says the two are intimately connected. In a small lecture ...

Scientists exhausted by the relentless demand to “demonstrate impact” and churn out peer-reviewed papers find ways of cheering themselves up. A popular consolation is to imagine reviewers’ reports on ...

An eon, also spelled aeon, is the longest division of geologic time, so it's a difficult concept for most of us to wrap our minds around. Sir Roger Penrose, a distinguished physicist at Oxford ...

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society is a quarterly journal that includes papers read at the American Philosophical Society’s biannual meetings, independent essays by outside scholars, ...