Stephen Hawking's 1966 PhD thesis, Properties of Expanding Universes, laid the groundwork for his renowned contributions to ...

A radical new theory by physicist Naman Kumar is challenging the way we think about the birth of the universe. Rather than ...

Theoretical physicists James Hartle and Stephen Hawking, for example, proposed that rather than having a strict beginning as ...

I've long been fascinated by the fundamental mystery of our universe's origin. In my work, I explore an alternative to the ...

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The Hawking Index, named after Stephen Hawking because of A Brief History of Time’s reputation for being started but not finished, estimates how far readers get in a book by analysing the most ...

You may think that time started 13.8 billion years ago at the birth of the universe, but physicists with alternative definitions of time have other ideas ...

Stephen Hawking's computer-generated voice is so iconic that it's trademarked — The filmmakers behind The Theory of Everything had to get Hawking's personal permission to use the voice in his ...

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World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76 in the early hours of March 14, 2018. Hawking, who was paralysed by motor neurone disease for more than 55 years, was known for his ...

One of Hawking’s major achievements was to come up with a theory to explain that the universe has no boundaries. In 1983, he and James Hartle, combined the concept of quantum mechanics with ...