On this episode of Air Time, violinists Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon discuss the formation of the Isidore String Quartet, tracing their origins from Juilliard and summer festivals to a Banff ...

Before her career as a novelist, Toni Morrison was a teacher. The famed American author, best known for works such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931. After attending ...

Last May, I gave a lecture at the Air War College, the Air Force’s senior service school for officers. I have taught at West Point and spoken at several other senior service schools. At the Air War ...

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with ...

Biological systems are notoriously tough to model, especially when it comes to figuring out the axons, neurons, blood vessels, and other structural components of gray matter, or the tissue that makes ...

Neutral-atom arrays are a rapidly emerging platform to create quantum computers. In a foundational study led by graduate students Aaron Holman and Yuan Xu from the Will and Yu labs, respectively, the ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human brain? If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On a nippy Monday night at the Zebulon in Frogtown, a man wearing a Jason Voorhees T-shirt steps onto a ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called “Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?” Hawking, who later became my ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...

Lectures on Tap series brings professors and other experts into Boston restaurants and bars for talks that mix big ideas with food and drink. Lectures on Tap, an event series, brings ticketed lectures ...

Who is the Antichrist, the biblical antagonist whose rise marks the beginning of the end-times? Peter Thiel recently took a stab at answering this age-old question. Thiel kicks off the lecture series ...