Alan Lightman departed his hometown of Memphis as a young man, settling in New England and establishing himself in two extraordinary careers, first as an astrophysicist and then as an acclaimed writer ...

A new, three-part series, “Searching, Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science,” now airing on public television, features MIT physicist and author Alan Lightman, who explores timeless and deep ...

MIT professor and author of “Einstein’s Dreams,” Alan Lightman, spent the evening of Nov. 9 engaging in an intimate conversation about the intersection of science and the arts. The event was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: Physicist and author Alan Lightman has been pondering some major questions. For instance, “Where do we humans fit in ...

(RNS) — Scientists and believers have had an uneasy relationship, often bordering on open hostility. Consider Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris. But there is one scientist who manages to write about the ...

Do Ho Suh, whose major survey exhibition in London opens this week, discusses the power of architecture and finding motivation from mistakes. By Emily Steer In “The Miraculous From the Material,” the ...

Memphis-born writer and MIT physicist Alan Lightman was the subject of a long profile in the The Boston Globe last week. The story recounts Lightman’s efforts to build a women’s college dorm in ...

Computer graphics overlaid on Alan Lightman's face visualize the long-standing debate as to whether life is only matter in motion, or has some non-material essence, in the series “SEARCHING: Our Quest ...

EXCLUSIVE: Physicist and author Alan Lightman has been pondering some major questions. For instance, “Where do we humans fit in the grand scheme of things? Are we just atoms and molecules, or ...