Why do magnets attract and repel each other? In this episode, we will explain the mechanism of magnets in an easy-to-understand way, incorporating Feynman's approach to "how to answer the question of ...

Explore Feynman’s reverse sprinkler and the physics behind a long-standing scientific question.

Richard Feynman quotes get thrown around a whole lot. And it’s true, he has a lot of good ones, like the bit about no physicist really, truly understanding quantum mechanics. I use that one probably ...

In his new book, Quantum Man, physicist and writer Lawrence M. Krauss describes the scientific contributions, and unique mind, of Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman, whom he calls "perhaps the ...

Richard Feynman could turn almost anything into physics and math. Even lunch. One day in the late 1970s, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist sat in a Thai restaurant in Glendale, California, with his ...

After reading my weekend column about the crisis in life science research, Hajime Hoji of USC’s linguistics department reminded me of the late Richard Feynman’s brilliant deconstruction of the flaws ...

How could Richard Feynman have been such a great physicist and done so phenomenally well on the Putnam competition and yet still have an IQ score of only 125? originally appeared on Quora: the ...

Steps to Eliminate the 'I Know It but Can't Explain It' Feeling'I know it, but when I try to explain it, the words won't come ...

I have a confession: I didn't actually know a whole lot about Richard Feynman. Well, okay, I knew a bit about his role at Los Alamos from a history class, and I knew a little about his outsized ...

On May 2nd, 1956, acclaimed theoretical physicist Richard Feyman gave a lunchtime talk at the California Institute of Technology. The relation between science and religion was on the docket that day.

Richard Feynman was one of the 20th century's most influential physicists and one of its most colourful personalities. Recruited to the Manhattan project in his early 20s, he helped calculate the ...