All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Learn more.

The American physicist Richard Feynman is often quoted as saying: ‘You can recognise truth by its beauty and simplicity.’ The phrase appears in the work of the American science writer K C Cole – in ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Richard Feynman: I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree ...

Physicist Richard Feynman has a reputation as a bongo-playing, hard-partying, flamboyant Nobel Prize laureate for his work on quantum electrodynamics theory, but this tends to obscure the fact that he ...

At a hearing of the presidential commission investigating the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster, Richard Feynman conducted an experiment of sorts in the media-packed room. The Caltech physicist ...

An expertly animated take on Feynman’s famous “Ode to a Flower,” created by London-based animator and designer Fraser Davidson. Watching Davidon’s short reminded me of another video that made use of ...

Richard Feynman was a multifaceted man: a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a wonderful, caring teacher, a bongo player, an unabashed smartass... Above all, Feynman was blunt and brutally honest. In ...

In contrast to Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, or Yale, the universities and other institutions of southern California have always offered a far more relaxed, informal culture. When you’re an easy drive ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In the 1970s, you couldn’t go anywhere without seeing the name Herman ...