Stephen Hawking
Seventy years on, Oxford pub pays tribute to Bob Hawke’s legendary skol
Australia’s longest-serving Labor prime minister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford between 1953 and 1956. In 1954, he drank a yard of ale.
- by Rob Harris
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Stephen Hawking’s thoughts on the big mystery of missing socks
The scientist had some interesting explanations about the Bermuda Triangle where socks go to disappear.
- by Richard Glover
Stephen Hawking's former nurse suspended
A hearing into the nurse's professional conduct, which is expected to last until March 21 after beginning in February, is being held in-camera.
Wit, wisdom and world-changers: who we lost in 2018
The dearly departed of 2018 leave a lasting legacy in their fields.
- by Tim Barlass
Stephen Hawking's wheelchair sells for $539,000 at auction
A wheelchair used by Stephen Hawking has sold at auction for almost £300,000 pounds ($539,000).
Stephen Hawking's last warning from beyond the grave
Acclaimed physicist pleads for unity and reveals his fear of a "global revolt against experts" that might get in the way of finding the next Einstein.
- by Nick Miller
Stephen Hawking's voice beamed into space at final send-off
The physicist's voice, set to a piece of music, was sent from the European Space Agency's Cebreros station in Spain towards the nearest black hole.
- by Costas Pitas
Stephen Hawking's final theory published
The renowned cosmologist's final published theory, submitted before his death on March 14, provides plenty of food for thought.
- by John von Radowitz
Stephen Hawking's ashes to be interred next to Newton, Darwin at Westminster Abbey
Stephen Hawking is to take his place among some of the greatest scientists in history when his ashes are interred inside Westminster Abbey.
Stephen Hawking left memorable impact through TV cameos
Stephen Hawking, who died on Wednesday at the age of 76, was perhaps the most exclusive guest star in television history.
- by Verne Gay
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Stephen Hawking achieved a remarkable feat in turning a book on astrophysics into a bestseller
A Brief History of Time came out as I was moving out of astrophysics and into science journalism and communication, so it was particularly influential on me – and I suspect on a whole generation of physics and astronomy communicators.
- by Graham Phillips
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