Melissa Franklin

Einstein’s theories in a virtual theme park

Humans haven’t always counted time down to the second

In an excerpt from his new book, “Sleeping Beauties,” the musician and writer revisits the brilliant discoveries by astronomer Vera Rubin

Without different anatomical proportions, a scaled-up body would collapse under its own weight.

Some scientists say the answers may lie in thermodynamics and other mathematical principles

“How about that?”