President Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Stephen Hawking in Washington
President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Stephen Hawking, at the White House in Washington on August 12, 2009. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
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Jamie Foxx, Bryan Cranston and Ricky Gervais are to appear in the U.S. prime-time television special "David Blaine: Real or Magic," ABC announced.
British cosmologist Stephen Hawking, confined to a wheelchair with a debilitating neuromuscular disease, said in an interview he approves of assisted suicide.
British actor Eddie Redmayne is in talks to play ALS-stricken physicist and author Stephen Hawking in the film "Theory of Everything," Deadline.com reported.
Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking pulled out of the President's Conference in Jerusalem, joining the academic boycott against Israel.
Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, speaking in California, said the next breakthrough in cosmology will come from the universe's dark side.
A Princeton University physicist's work on string theory has won a $3 million prize set up to award work in fundamental physics, organizers in Switzerland said.
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Famed physicist Stephen Hawking appears on a commercial for a British website, conjuring a black hole to swallow the website's intentionally annoying mascot.
A group of scientists Friday urged U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron to pardon Alan Turing, the World War II codebreaker convicted of homosexuality.
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