Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Today, the eminent physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking is 70 years old. Dr. Hawking has numerous scientific achievements, making him a household name and a modern icon of the term “genius.” From Dr. Hawking’s website: Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. With Roger Penrose he ...

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Eric Mazur is a professor of physics at Harvard. Like many successful academics, he was trained to teach in the same way he learned — standing in front of a room filled with students and lecturing them on the fundamentals of Newtonian mechanics (among other things). If his course evaluations ...

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Today is Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday (on the Gregorian-adjusted calendar). In addition to laying out the Laws of Motion, he also did innovative work on the properties of light, as can be seen in this Lego re-enactment. And of course the logo for Apple, Inc. would only have half the ...