I have been listening to Richard Feynman and his classic series of physics lectures. It’s not exactly light reading or whatever the audiobook equivalent is of light reading, but it’s also amazingly ...

The most powerful formula in physics starts with a slender S, the symbol for a sort of sum known as an integral. Further along comes a second S, representing a quantity known as action. Together, ...

At the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, physicists shoot protons around a 17-mile track and smash them together at nearly the speed of light. It’s one of the most finely tuned scientific experiments ...