In March 2009, the New York Times wrote a lengthy piece about renowned physicist Freeman Dyson, then 85. Four years earlier, ...

Described politically as an “Obama-loving, (George W.) Bush-loathing liberal,” Dyson immersed himself in the science of ...

Often imagined as the crown jewel of future megastructures, a Dyson swarm—an orbiting fleet of solar collectors around the ...

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 ...

The concept, first popularized by physicist Freeman Dyson in 1960, represents one of the most ambitious yet potentially achievable feats of astroengineering that could eventually allow a ...

Dyson spheres are named after Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson, who proposed the idea in a 1960 paper called Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation. He took inspiration from ...

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 ...

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

Dyson spheres are hypothetical megastructures built around a star to harness its entire energy output. Named after physicist Freeman Dyson, these structures would collect all of a star's radiant ...

As civilisations become more and more advanced, their power needs also increase. It’s likely that an advanced civilisation ...