A new, three-part series, “Searching, Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science,” now airing on public television, features MIT physicist and author Alan Lightman, who explores timeless and deep ...

MIT professor and author of “Einstein’s Dreams,” Alan Lightman, spent the evening of Nov. 9 engaging in an intimate conversation about the intersection of science and the arts. The event was ...

For the ignition system, I used the flashbulb of a Kodak Brownie camera embedded within the fuel chamber. A small gunpowder ...

(RNS) — Scientists and believers have had an uneasy relationship, often bordering on open hostility. Consider Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris. But there is one scientist who manages to write about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: Physicist and author Alan Lightman has been pondering some major questions. For instance, “Where do we humans fit in ...

Alan Lightman: I mean, no one knows exactly how the ideas of 1905 came to him, but he was very caught up on modern physics. In those days an undergraduate physics student could go to the forefront of ...

In “The Miraculous From the Material,” his charming celebration of natural wonders, physicist and popular author Alan Lightman declares himself a spiritual materialist. “By ‘materialist,’ I mean that ...

Alan Lightman departed his hometown of Memphis as a young man, settling in New England and establishing himself in two extraordinary careers, first as an astrophysicist and then as an acclaimed writer ...

In his new book, “The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science,” Alan Lightman describes watching the lives of a family of ospreys one summer near his house on a small island in Maine.

Do Ho Suh, whose major survey exhibition in London opens this week, discusses the power of architecture and finding motivation from mistakes. By Emily Steer In “The Miraculous From the Material,” the ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min A talk between renowned ...