Physicists once treated Einstein’s picture of a clockwork universe as the gold standard for what “reality” should look like, ...

Is life (the universe and everything) just a series of predictable events, a chain of physics problems stringing all the way back to the Big Bang?... Last week I wrote about free will, or whether we ...

In the 18th century, the scientific world was drunk on Newtonian certainty. The universe was a clockwork mechanism, ...

Bestselling author Dolnick (The Rescue Artist) focuses on the 17th century and the giants of early science—Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, and particularly Newton and Leibniz, whose independent invention ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Edward Dolnick is an Author with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2011 Speech as a Chief Writer for Science in the Boston Globe. Most common ...

Mitchell Newberry is an assistant professor of complex systems at the University of Michigan. This story originally featured on The Conversation. Chaos evokes images of the dinosaurs running wild in ...

C-SPAN is testing some improvements to our website and we'd like to ask for your help. Please click here to try out our new video viewing page (you can switch back at any time). Edward Dolnick talked ...