"Why did the two massive Cold War groups—'the West led by America' and 'the East led by the Soviet Union'—begin to crumble ...

Few events in modern history have inspired as many books as World War II. More than 80 years after the conflict ended, historians, journalists, soldiers, and survivors have continued to document ...

The theme of the 2026 Nelson W. Taylor Lecture in Materials is “Extending materials science into the impossible.” The lecture, by Darrell Schlom, Tisch University Professor in the Department of ...

Yukawa was born in Tokyo on 23 January 1907 graduating from Kyoto University in 1929. He then moved to Osaka University in ...

September 30, 2026I have compiled the lectures, discussions, and television appearances I have given regarding the ...

Red balls and blue balls. A penny in Maryland and another in California. The same atom in two points on a graph at the same ...

She was among the first to argue that prosperity, equality and the protection of nature are inseparable planetary goals ...

Zi-Kui Liu, the Corning Faculty Fellow in Materials Science and Engineering in the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral ...

On 5 September 1906, at Hotel Ples in Duino near Trieste, Ludwig Boltzmann withdrew to his room while his wife, Henriette, ...

A new graph-theoretic framework provides a unified description of atom-light interactions across regimes ranging from weak to ...

Atomic and molecular physics it the study of the properties, dynamics and interactions of the basic (but not fundamental) building blocks of matter. A crucial component of this is understanding the ...

Purdue’s Presidential Lecture Series is a cornerstone of the intellectually vibrant community of scholars on our campus. Universities are places where ideas compete and curious minds gather, ...