There is a type of amnesia that prevents the formation of new memories, its place taken by confabulations. The writer W. G. Sebald used this illness to relate the story of a family member who ended his days in a psychiatric hospital
One day in the spring of 1985, Carl Sagan telephoned his colleague Kip Thorne at his office in the Norman Bridge laboratory at Caltech in order to do research for the novel he was writing
Paul Dirac developed an equation that integrates aspects of special relativity and quantum physics, but never imagined it would one day be associated with romance
Scientists scoffed when physicist Hugh Everett published his Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics in 1957, but a certain science-fiction author took note
In order to define the Higgs field, it was necessary to find the associated particle, also known popularly as the Holy Grail of the quantum world, the secret melody or the particle of God