It's Edification Friday! You should probably listen to physicist Richard Feynman explaining electricity and magnets to the BBC in 1983 rather than obsessively reloading Twitter. Go ahead, it's good ...

A commercially available “quantum computer” has been on the market since 2011, but it’s controversial. The D-Wave machine is nothing like other quantum computers, and until recently, scientists have ...

To be Richard Feynman’s little sister was an adventure. As a teenager, the future Nobel laureate paid his sister, Joan, nine years younger, a few pennies a week to be an assistant in his home science ...