Pioneering physicist Ernest O. Lawrence transformed American science over nearly three decades. The inventor of the cyclotron, the ancestor of such advanced machines as Europe’s Large Hadron Collider, ...

For more than a century, electric devices have been transmitting and receiving radio signals via antennas that range from skyscraping radio towers to telescoping cell phone aerials. Now, scientists ...

(The first installment in this three-part series examined the very special camera used to capture images during mankind's first visit to the moon's surface 40 years ago. This installment looks at the ...