Renowned British American physicist Freeman Dyson theorized it would be a shell made up of mirrors or solar panels that ...

Of the many well-known names in science, few have been as reluctant to stick to one particular field as Freeman John Dyson. Born in the UK in 1923, he showed a great interest in mathematics and ...

Freeman Dyson was an emeritus professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. Widely considered one of the world’s most distinguished scientists, he has 21 honorary degrees ...

A Space.com story outlines how Freeman Dyson first postulated the concept of Dyson spheres, consisting of a spherical shell ...

Of the many well-known names in science, few have been as reluctant to stick to one particular field as Freeman John Dyson. Born in the UK in 1923, he showed a great interest in mathematics and ...

In 1958, that was the question facing nuclear physicist Freeman Dyson and the team behind Project Orion — one of many Cold War attempts to find new beneficial uses for the bomb. Then one day ...

Given its mutable ethics, manipulating AI into yielding information on sensitive subjects, such as how to make nuclear bombs, ...

Scientists’ ideas for travelling to the stars range from the the wholly improbable to the hugely expensive and very difficult ...

A similar conversation that mathematician Neil Sloane overheard during a meal between two of his colleagues, Armand Borel and the late Freeman Dyson, had a more exciting outcome. Borel asked Dyson ...

The idea of Dyson Sphere’s has been around for decades. When Freeman Dyson explored the concept he acknowledged that they may ...

Freeman Dyson was a theoretical physicist and mathematician, and professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Photograph by ioerror - Flickr ...