During a BBC interview, Stephen Hawking staged a dramatic collapse after a plug was pulled, revealing it was an intentional prank. Trump wants nations to pay $1 billion to stay on peace board ...

Stephen Schwartz, the celebrated Oscar-winning composer behind Wicked and other hit musicals, is the latest artist to pull out of a scheduled appearance at the Kennedy Center in protest of Donald ...

Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei’s death (January 8, 1642). Guest-starred, as himself, on “The Big Bang Theory,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation” ...

Professor Stephen Hawking once gave a warning over what he believed could mark the end of the human race altogether. Hawking is largely considered to be one of the greatest theoretical physicists of ...

These days, it's easy to feel all doom and gloom about the state of the world. How could you not? Regardless, you should know that you're not alone. Believe it or not, one of the world's most ...

Stephen King is not scared of a little competition. Stephen King’s legions of dedicated fans are all in on the famed author’s assessment of his son’s book and are loving the father-son bond. “I’ve ...

An analysis by language learning website Preply found that Massachusetts was the fifth hardest name for Americans to say correctly. It was also the fifth hardest state name to spell. The study found ...

OpenAI’s new Sora 2 text-to-video model has opened a new can of worms, filling social media with more content of questionable quality. We’re seeing an increasing number of videos featuring deceased ...

OpenAI is capitalizing on bad taste with its new text-to-video generator, Sora 2. The new app allows users to share AI-generated videos on a TikTok-style feed. If you hoped that people would be using ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever-clearer signals, researchers are testing Einstein’s relativity and Hawking ...

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On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes. Now, in the ...