Science journalist Barss (The Erotic Engine) presents a penetrating, warts and all biography of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose. A socially awkward kid from an unaffectionate family, ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, when matter collapses under its own gravitational pull, the result ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) When Roger Penrose originally came out with the idea that the human brain uses quantum effects in microtubules and that was the origin of consciousness, many thought the idea ...

Andrea Ghez, one of three recipients of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, is a distinguished Masters swimmer in California. Ghez was announced this week as the winner of the Nobel Prize for her work on ...