The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to scientists Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their discoveries about black holes. This year’s prize was about “the darkest secrets ...

The subtitle of Roger Penrose’s new book modestly promises “a complete guide to the laws of the universe”. Remarkably, it almost succeeds in delivering on this promise. Of course, no book – even one ...

“The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his iconoclastic complexity. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

At one point in Patchen Barss’s new biography of Roger Penrose, we find the author seated at a table in the Oxford flat of his subject, about to interview him for the first time. It is 2018. The ...

One of the most intriguing speculative arguments in physics and computer science isn't really about physics or computer science at all. It's about the brain — or more precisely, about consciousness — ...

In 1998, Stephen Hawking laid 50-50 odds that the holy grail of physics, the elusive "theory of everything," was less than 20 years away. Around the same time, Hawking's renowned peer, collaborator ...

New laureates: Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have won the the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics. (Courtesy: IOP Publishing/Tushna Commissariat; CC-BY-SA H Garching; UCLA/Christopher Dibble ...

Patchen Barss’s The Impossible Man is a warts-and-all portrait of Roger Penrose, his Nobel Prize-winning work and his fraught personal life Frances Wilson is a biographer and critic. A former academic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. This article is more than 5 years old. In April of 2017, all 8 of the ...