The Latest Breaking News from Stephen Hawking

Kevin Sweeney, now 11, shocked his parents with his high intellect before he was in primary school - with a recent IQ test proving higher than Albert Einsteins.

As her new book on the origins of the universe is published, the Albanian-American scientist explains how her work on multiverse theory influenced Stephen Hawking

The Volkswagen Caravelle was used as scientist’s wedding car in 1995.

Dyslexia has affected some of history’s greatest minds – including Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and Sir Stephen Hawking.

Back with a new album following their second reformation, the electronic duo – and Glastonbury veterans – will take on your questions

Time travel makes regular appearances in popular culture, with innumerable time travel storylines in movies, television and literature. But it is a surprisingly old idea: one can argue that the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles over 2,500 years ago, is the first time travel story.

Chris Thurston, 42, from Wirral, Merseyside, thought he was suffering with a trapped nerve until doctors revealed it was an early sign of a devastating incurable condition

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that affects about 1 in 50,000 people. Well-known people who suffered from ALS include baseball player Lou Gehrig, who lived two years after he was diagnosed, and scientist Stephen Hawking, who lived for an extraordinary 55 years after his diagnosis. While the…

Researchers from the Cedars-Sinai hospital have created an artificial intelligence-enabled tool that may make it easier to predict if a person will have a heart attack. The tool, described in The Lancet Digital Health journal, accurately predicted which patients would experience a heart attack in five years based on the…

According to two new studies, something called “quantum hair” is the answer to an almost half-century-old problem.