Chinese particle physicist Yangyang Cheng reflects on the legacy of the late Nobel laureate T.D. Lee — how his ideas changed ...

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Scientists who studied inebriated worms, a dead trout’s swimming acumen, and pigeons as potential missile pilots were among those who garnered awards at the 34th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.

Laws don’t always apply. In 1956, Tsung-Dao Lee, a physicist at Columbia University, overturned a widely accepted law of nature which posited that objects always behaved in the same way as their ...

Among those collecting their prizes was a Japanese research team led by Ryo Okabe and Takanori Takebe who discovered that mammals can breathe through their anuses. They say in their paper that ...

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee has ... promising path in theoretical astrophysics and particle physics. Lee and Yang’s work overturned long-held assumptions about a basic tenet ...

Chinese particle physicist Yangyang Cheng reflects on the legacy of the late Nobel laureate T.D ... In 1956, Lee and his colleague Chen Ning Yang, a fellow Chinese graduate of the University ...

Lee and Yang’s work overturned long-held assumptions ... All are shown after receiving Nobel Prizes in Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 10, 1957. At the end of his letter to Deser, Lee emphasized the ...