Four hundred years before the birth of Christ, the renowned Greek philosopher, Democritus, suggested that all matter is composed of tiny, discrete, indivisible particles Four hundred years before the ...

In Bernard Malamud’s The Natural, Iris (played in the movie version by Glenn Close) tells Roy Hobbs that we all have two lives, “the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.” Murray ...

Manhattan-born physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who revolutionized the discovery and classification of subatomic particles, died Friday at the age of 89. Famous for detecting a slew of theoretical specks, ...