Stephen Hawking

Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of is a wonderful book which summarizes many of the classic open research questions in practical and theoretical physics. Stephen Hawking explains the phenomena both in simple language, as well as the language of higher ...  

Display technology firm Christie announced that the Stephen Hawking Centre at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont., Canada, has deployed 84 Christie MicroTiles to visually communicate a range of scientific research, training ...  

Chip giant Intel Corp. is looking for ways to help renowned physicist Stephen Hawking continue talking. According to the Associated Press, Santa Clara-based Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is working on a new speech system to help Hawking, who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease. His speech has been getting slower, and Intel’s aim is to keep that from happening. Hawking talks now by moving muscles in his cheek. Those movements are detected using infrared...  

Stephen Hawking believes that God was not necessary to create and design the physical universe. Hawking's atheistic beliefs are simply irrational, deeply unrealistic, and purely unscientific.Contributor: Eliot ElwarPublished: Jan 29, 2012  

CAMBRIDGE, England — Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is not well enough to attend a conference held to celebrate his 70th birthday, a University of Cambridge official said Sunday. Hawking’s remarkable career is being honored as part of a daylong conference on cosmology being hosted at the university. Read full article >>  

by Charlene Anderson The Cosmos Award for Public Presentation of Science – at least the blown-glass Saturn trophy given to Stephen Hawking by The Planetary Society – continues to appear around the Internet. The BBC has now posted a great image from the Science Museum in London's exhibit of curios from Dr. Hawking's office. That's our Saturn on the table to the right. We were surprised and honored to see the Cosmos Award selected to help ....  

The physicist and cosmologist was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease when he was a 21-year-old student at Cambridge University. Most people die within a few years of the diagnosis, called motor neurone disease in the U.K. On Sunday, Hawking will turn 70.  

On Jan. 8, Stephen Hawking turned 70. Diagnosed at the age of 21 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, he had been expected to live no longer than two or three more years. He beat the odds by half a century. In ...  

Weird News: Stephen Hawking looks for an assistant.. to look after his … Scottish Daily Record PHYSICIST Stephen Hawking is looking for an assistant – to help him look after his motorised wheelchair and computerised ...  

Today's entry is titled "Stephen Hawking's curios explained ... given by The Planetary Society to those who best exemplify the standards set by the Society's co-founder, Carl Sagan, and his landmark television series, "Cosmos." In honor of his many ...  

World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking's physical condition is further deteriorating, and Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) wants to help the famous scientist continue to share his ideas with the world. Hawking, who at 21 was diagnosed with a motor neurone disease ...  

To mark his birthday Sunday, Cambridge University held a public ... has programmed his computer to respond to random encounters with people who ask if he’s Stephen Hawking. “No, but I’m often mistaken for that man,” his voice synthesizer deadpans.  

Stephen Hawking celebrated his 70th birthday earlier this month ... As well as being the world's most famous living scientist, Hawking is probably the best-known user of speech-synthesis technology, which enables those who have lost their voices through ...  

Have you heard about the newest collaboration between Stephen Hawking and YouTube. It is called YouTube Space Lab and it is a project that encourages young minds to enter the world of space, astrophysics, but more importantly science in general.  

Last week some creationists celebrated an apparent triumph: Legendary physicist Stephen Hawking used the word God, possibly not in vain. The utterance allegedly occurred at an international "state of the universe" conference, to celebrate the 70th birthday ...