Scientists Audio & Video

Great Biographies in Time explores the lives of some of the most intriguing figures in history.

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist.

From the bestselling author of "Benjamin Franklin" comes the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available--a fully realized portrait of this extraordinary human being and great genius.

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.

How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages? the visitor from Harvard asked...

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.

With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife...

In this New York Times best-selling "imperative how-to for creativity" (Nick Offerman), Adam Savage - star of Discovery Channel's Mythbusters - shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully making your idea a reality.

Did you know that for 21 years Darwin kept his theory of evolution secret?

By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize....