"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." "I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we ...

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Written for a non-specialist audience, Hawking’s A Brief History of Time is the very definition of a smash-hit science book. It may be a joke (repeated by Hawking himself in h2g2) that it’s ...

Elusive black hole radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking may have influenced the way the universe took shape after the Big Bang, new research suggests.

When he was 21, Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Doctors told him he had a few years to live. He's now 72 and one of the foremost physicists alive - a professor at the ...