A nurse who cared for Professor Stephen Hawking claimed last night that she saw his wife abusing and mistreating him. Elaine Hawking called her disabled 62-year-old husband a cripple, bathed him ...

The legacy of Prof Stephen Hawking will live forever, mourners at the theoretical physicist's funeral heard. Prof Hawking, who had motor neurone disease, died on 14 March, aged 76, at his home in ...

"Everyone is devastated - especially Stephen's children." For more than three years, Professor Hawking, who is paralysed as a result of motor neurone disease and can speak only through a ...

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

Professor Stephen Hawking delivers this year’s BBC Reith Lectures on black holes. Professor Hawking takes us through the history of scientific thinking about black holes, and explains how they ...

Stephen Hawking was not only an iconic figure in the fields of theoretical physics and cosmology but also a public intellectual whose influence stretched beyond academia.

Professor Stephen Hawking’s scientific and personal archive, including letters to his family, has been fully catalogued and ...

Physicists finally know whether black holes destroy the information contained in infalling matter. The problem is that the answer hasn’t lit the way to a new understanding of space-time ...

Earlier this week, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking out-snarked the king of ... "But how do I know, professor?" Oliver asked. "If computers had become sentient, what better way to convince ...

The first public tours have been launched at a building housing more than 300,000 historic items from the Science Museum Group. Visitors can now walk around the 20,000 sq ft Hawking Building at ...

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary ... And in 1979, he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, the same post held by Sir Isaac Newton 300 years earlier.