Topic: Richard Feynman

first synthetic living

Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the...
Some of the problems of today's globalized world could be eliminated or reduced by developing operational worldwide molecular design and...

Hepatitis C Requires Fat to Replicate

The Center for the Biology of Chronic Disease (CBCD) has recently learned that according to a new study published in PLoS Pathogens, Hepatitis C...

Are You a Sensory Coward?

One of the recurring themes of wine is the plea, “But how can you know for sure?” We live in a scientific age where proof—quantifiable, verifiable...

How People Are Fooled by Evidence

Rationality is the crowning achievement of our species. The ability to use evidence is true the cornerstone of science, medicine, and our legal...

Graphic Scenes: Summer 2011

In the first of a monthly series, Afterword deputy editor David Berry takes a survey of graphic novels and comic arts that have slipped under the...

The World of Nanotechnology

Don't fill in this field Dr. Kaku's Universe Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Tweet . In my book Visions, I state that nanotechnology was first proposed...
This is both fascinating and unexpected. Written by Dr. Bob Root-Bernstein, a MacArthur Fellow who has been studying Nobel laureates, the article...
Audible.com is now offering "The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volume 15, Feynman on Electricity and Magnetism, Part 2 as an audiobook download...

The World of Nanotechnology

In my book Visions, I state that nanotechnology was first proposed by Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman in a seminal but witty article entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom. " Feynman envisioned the theoretical capability of nanotech in 1959, stating: This ...