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Brain Pickings' Maria Popova describes a moment of creative breakthrough from Professor Emeritus Freeman Dyson's Maker of Patterns (Liveright, 2018):

“Suddenly, in what Dyson terms a 'flash of illumination on the Greyhound bus,' everything fell into...

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, sat down with 52 Insights to discuss life, evolution, the limitations of science, and more:

"If you just look at the struggle for existence in the last million years when most of...

The Strings 2018 conference, which convened international experts and researchers to discuss string theory, took place from June 25–29, 2018, in Okinawa, Japan. The annual international Strings conferences, which have been held every year since 1995...

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, sat down with Mat Kaplan of the Planetary Society for a conversation about Dyson Spheres, black holes, gravitational waves, and more, saying:

"The universe is just full of things we...

Akshay Venkatesh, a world-leading mathematician who has made fundamental contributions to various fields of mathematics, working in particular at the intersection of analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, and representation theory, has...

Myles W. Jackson, an internationally renowned historian of science whose breadth of research extends from molecular biology and physics to intellectual property and privacy issues, has been appointed to the Faculty of the School of Historical...

“The Noah’s Ark Egg is a way of making space colonies highly cost-effective. They’re very cheap, and also very powerful. They’re using miniaturization to spread life in the universe, not just for exploring," said Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in...

“Always when things are dull, something turns up to challenge us and to stop us from settling into a rut. Examples of things which made life difficult are all around us: comet impacts, ice ages, weapons, plagues, nuclear fission, computers, sex, sin...

Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, Sanjeev Arora, Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, and five former Members are among those newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Nautilus presents short excerpts from nine of Freeman Dyson’s letters taken from his new book Maker of Patterns, with a focus on his relationship with the physicist Richard Feynman. Dyson and Feynman had both professional and personal bonds: Dyson...