When Scott Mandelbrote, director of studies in history at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, traveled to the auction house Bonhams in London in 2021, he had to sneak into the building behind someone ...

Enjoy back-to-back days of lecturer Mike Thomas this month at Western Nevada College’s Jack C. Davis Observatory in Carson City. Thomas will deliver a lecture on “Amazing Engineering” on Friday, March ...

Nobel Laureate and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities Elie Wiesel gives a talk entitled, "The Rebbe of Ger: A Tragedy in Hasidism," at Metcalf Hall on Nov. 1, 2010. DAILY FREE PRESS ARCHIVE ...

I was up in London yesterday at the headquarters of the Institute of Physics to listen to a talk by top quantum-information scientist Anton Zeilinger from the University of Vienna. Zeilinger was ...

Mark presents the life of Isaac Newton, whose great achievement was to overcome the main prejudice of his day - that religion was right about everything.

A few weeks ago Deborah Jin was in London to accept the 2014 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics. As is the custom, Jin also delivered the Institute’s Newton Lecture for 2014, ...