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 ...

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 ...

Quote of the Day: Richard Feynman’s “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. In the years prior to World War II, physics was in an odd, ...

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 ...

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 ...