Stephen Hawking
15/06/2019 - 12:42
Before Hawking’s talk, all cosmological origin stories, scientific or theological, had invited the rejoinder, “What happened before that?”... →
14/03/2018 - 12:24
Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford on 8 January 1942. His father, a research biologist, had moved with his mother from London to... →
23/06/2017 - 14:55
Prof Hawking said it was only a matter of time before the Earth as we know it is destroyed by an asteroid strike, soaring temperatures... →
03/12/2016 - 21:24
So the recent apparent rejection of the elites in both America and Britain is surely aimed at me, as much as anyone. Whatever we might... →
13/04/2016 - 00:54
The technology behind the billionaire’s ambitious proposal—of which prototypes were revealed today—includes a “Starchip,” a gram scale... →
20/01/2016 - 14:05
It is ironic that such a prominent figure in science identifies scientific progress itself as the major source of new threats. On previous... →
26/08/2015 - 17:44
Hawking’s proposal is an attempt to answer a problem that has tormented physicists about what happens to things when they go beyond the... →
04/12/2014 - 13:20
Google is making a push into “quantum computing” and has established an ethics committee to monitor the work of DeepMind, the artificial... →
03/02/2014 - 17:07
In the Fifties, St Albans – a direct-grant public school with a small complement of boarders – perfectly reflected the upwardly mobile... →
17/11/2013 - 13:12
Supersymmetry is the concept that known particles – such as electrons, quarks and photons – have a heavier and as-yet-undetected "... →
12/05/2013 - 18:52
For one second. And then, they moved on.
What with new austerity measures announced this week and Israeli start-up Waze reportedly on the... →
08/05/2013 - 15:18
Hawking's decision marks another victory in the campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions targeting Israeli academic institutions. In... →