To demonstrate this tragic oversight, Feynman dropped a sample of the O-ring rubber in a glass of ice water. The rubber grew ...

🚀 On This Day — 28 Jan In 1986, the Challenger shuttle tragically disintegrated shortly after launch, claiming the lives of ...

Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent ...

I still vividly remember the stunning news footage that I saw 40 years ago. The space shuttle Challenger lifts off from ...

Richard Feynman was a physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1965, helped develop the atomic bomb, and was a key member of a panel that investigated the Challenger explosion in 1986. He was also a loon.

William Hurt plays scientist Richard Feynman in “The Challenger Disaster.” The Nobel Prize-winning physicist, initially reluctant to be part of the special commission on the Challenger, soon realizes ...

Plain-spoken, sometimes rumpled scientist Richard Feynman is the hero of the movie “The Challenger Disaster,” which premieres at 9 p.m. EST Saturday on the Science Channel. And his heroism is simply ...

Many models of effective decision-making tell you what to do. Here is a model based on what not to do. It is unique in its ...