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Hawking was concerned about the future emergence of a race of "superhumans" that would be able to design their own evolution [342] and, as well, argued that computer viruses in today's world should be considered a new form of life, stating that "maybe it says something about human nature, that the only form of life we have created so far is ...
Nature 's 10 is an annual listicle of ten "people who mattered" in science, produced by the scientific journal Nature.Nominees have made a significant impact in science either for good or for bad.
Ahmed Hassan Zewail (February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American chemist, [4] known as the "father of femtochemistry". [5] He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, [4] and also first African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within astronomy, or are directors of major observatories or heads of space-based telescope projects.
The idea of transforming Mars into a world more hospitable to human habitation is a regular feature of science fiction. Scientists are now proposing a new approach to warm up Earth's planetary ...
Richard Phillips Feynman (/ ˈ f aɪ n m ə n /; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist.He is best known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and in particle physics, for which he proposed the parton model.
University of Maine climate scientist Jacquelyn Gill noticed in 2018 fewer people telling her climate change isn’t real and more “people that we now call doomers that you know believe that ...
A slew of members of the scientific community, 22 of whom are Nobel Prize winners, have written an open letter to Donald Trump and upcoming congress. 2,300 scientists pen sobering open letter to Trump