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The Woods Hole Film Festival will take place July 30 through August 6, with 45 feature-length and 72 short films—nearly half directed by women and from both first-time and veteran

Klára Dán von Neumann enters the Netherworld of computer simulations and postwar Los Alamos National Laboratory

Art and science always inspire each other. That is why the Helmholtz Association invites artists to collaborate with its Research Centers

Ever since the Cold War broke out in the 1950s, people have found a strange, paradoxical comfort in thinking about the unthinkable.

My Gen Ed relativity course has mostly been me lecturing about stuff to this point, so on Wednesday I decided to shake things up a bit and convert a chapter of David Mermin's It's About Time. The idea was to get students up and moving around a bit, and actually making some measurements of stuff.

Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know puts the work of Stephen Hawking and others in the spotlight

In the new documentary Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know, the work of Stephen Hawking and others in trying to figure out a mystery for the age is put under the spotlight

By drorzel on September 8, 2014. The new academic year starts this week-- first day of classes is Wednesday-- and Im dealing with the usual chaos associated with the influx of a new class of students. Who now look to me only a tiny bit older than SteelyKid and the Pip in the above picture (and if you think that sharing that extremely cute photo is part of the motivation for this post, well, youre not wrong...). This year, the madness of the new term is complicated by having bee...

By drorzel on September 23, 2014. Modern media being what it is, I should get out in front of this, so: I am guilty of putting words in Einsteins mouth. I mean, go watch my TED-Ed video on particles and waves, or just look at the image up top-- that very clearly shows Einstein saying words that he probably never said. And its my fault. Well, OK, I didnt actually put those words in his mouth-- the animator did that. What I wrote is "Einstein himself described [the photoelectric ...

Doc Talk: The Irish famine remembered; black holes investigated; Truth or Consequences (the town, that is) examined By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated March 11, 2021, 12:44 p.m. Email to a Friend Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by streaming the Irish Film Festival, Boston (March 17-21), which features among its many fine documentaries Ruan Magan’s “ The Hunger” (available from March 18 at 3 p.m.). It may not be the most festive way to honor the holiday, but its grim, c...