Ashoke Sen might be one of the quietest geniuses in physics. Born in Kolkata in 1956, he grew up fascinated by abstract mathematics and theoretical pu.
The phenomenon of Near-Death Experiences (NDE) is nothing new. In his literary masterpiece, Republic, Plato (428-347 B.C.) writes of the battlefield death of Er only to somehow return from the ...
For the anniversary of the Boston Massacre, Paul Meany examines how ancient and Enlightenment thinkers ultimately influenced ...
An exhibition at Tefaf Maastricht presents 18th-century city plans not merely as scientific tools of the age, but great works of art in their own right ...