Back in 1959 American physicist Richard Feynman famously predicted that we'd be creating atom sized machines in the future.

CNN: Organic by design

Collected over 40 years by American physicist Don Gurnett, these sounds have recently been arranged by composer Terry Riley into what may be the very first space concerto.

UNESCO: Open Access to Scientific Information

It was a 40-year-old American theoretical physicist, Michael Mattis, who discovered the truth.

ECONOMIST: Fake vintage photographs

Bernard Eastlund, a physicist and veteran of the American nuclear industry, has proposed an ingenious way to deal with these nuclear leftovers.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear waste

Take, for example, noted physicist Harold Lewis, who recently resigned from the American Physical Society over its suppression of views contrary to those of man-made global warming orthodoxy.

FORBES: Commentary

David Strom, a German Jewish physicist recently arrived in the United States, and Delia Daley, an African-American doctor's daughter, meet at Marian Anderson's famous 1939 concert at Washington Mall.

ECONOMIST: When writing fiction, brains are not everything