American Scientist (ISSN 0003-0996) is an illustrated bimonthly magazine about science and technology. Each issue is filled with feature articles written by prominent scientists and engineers, ...

Cosmologists face a dilemma. The rise of quantitative cosmology, exemplified by the release of new data in March on the cosmic microwave background from the WMAP satellite (see pp16-19; print version ...

An Introduction to Cosmology. By Dr. G. J. Whitrow. (Hutchinson's University Library, No. 29.) Pp. 171. (London: Hutchinson's University Library, 1949.) 7s. 6d. net.

As the pandemic ebbed and flowed this summer, we watched the spectacle of billionaires racing to the edge of space. Shortly after reaching an altitude of 53 miles in his rocket plane, Richard Branson ...

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant advancements in our understanding of black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity. Plus, ...