Browsing: Michael Segal

Engineering education.

An astrophysicist sits down with Nautilus to discuss cosmology and culture.

The Martian started as a self-published blog, and became a major motion picture.

Rags, riches, and fame in mathematics.

The Fall 2014 Quarterly looks ahead.

Nautilus’ Ingenious this month, Alan Lightman, is a successful writer and physicist, and one of the very rare people to receive an appointment in both science and humanities at MIT*. He did his doctoral research at Caltech while Richard Feynman was a professor there. One day, Lightman was on hand to see the brilliant and […]

Stories about a life spent searching for life among the stars.

The truth will set us free, so long as we remember to challenge it.