But that hasn’t stopped us from being fascinated by intelligence tests that attempt to assign a numerical value to how smart we are—and, of course, trying to figure out who has the highest IQ in the ...

"The idea that they can somehow obliterate these sources is dead wrong — scientists in general and astronomers in particular are not going to take these threats lying down." ...

In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that describes the unintuitive rules of physics on very small scales, began to crystallize in the minds of physicists. Beginning in that year ...