Harvard physicist Lisa Randall talks about her new book, Knocking On Heaven's Door, an examination of the latest findings in cosmology and the history of scientific thought, and discusses a report ...

With Anthony Brooks in for Tom Ashbrook. Top flight physicist Lisa Randall on understanding the universe, from particles to the cosmos. This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ...

For years, scientists have said that a giant asteroid was the cause of a mass extinction 66 million years ago, but a theoretical physicist has reached a different conclusion. For years, scientists ...

Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall, a Harvard University professor, is on a quest to figure out how the universe works, at the most fundamental level, using math and science as her tool. Her work with ...

The origin of humanity is one of the greatest and most challenging scientific puzzles to reckon with, in part because multiple disciplines approach the question from their respective knowledge bases ...

Sometime in 2007, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, will start operations near Geneva, Switzerland, and the universe we think we know may disappear in a shower ...

Andreas Pein / LAIF / Redux Lisa Randall is telling me she may have a clue to the next great mystery in cosmology. We are having lunch in a restaurant at the Charles Hotel, not far from Harvard where ...

With compelling and accessible anecdotes, Lisa Randall brings abstract ideas into practical terms. By investigating how the universe, galaxy and solar system evolved, she shares new ideas of how life ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover science and technology. While it's not as engaging as her previous books, Lisa Randall's new title, Dark Matter and the ...