From a conversation between Bill Moyers and the physicist Sam Ting, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Physics. SAMUEL TING: I was born in Michigan and then returned to China a few months after I was ...

In an April 2011 cover story, Charles P. Pierce profiled Samuel Ting, an MIT physicist on a 16-year, $1.5 billion quest to put a cosmic-ray detector on the International Space Station, where he hoped ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The cosmic detector that required a series of difficult spacewalking repairs is back in action. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is working better than ever, Samuel Ting, ...

Chao Chung Ting, a Chinese-American scientist and Nobel Prize winner in physics, was appointed as honorary dean of the advanced technology research institute of Shandong University (SDU) during his ...

The International Space Station's one chance of scientific greatness rests on a high-profile refugee from the world of the particle accelerator - but is it too long a shot to be worth taking? Eric ...

In the near vacuum of outer space, each rare morsel of matter tells a story. A speedy proton may have been propelled by the shock wave of an exploding star. A stray electron may have teetered on the ...

When the space shuttle Endeavour lifts off one last time on Monday (May 16), it won't just be the culmination of the orbiter's career. It will also bring to fruition a 15-year, $2 billion quest to ...

Nearly every American is descended from people who came to these shores from other countries. Often there is a conversation that happens between the generation that immigrated and the new American ...

The cosmic detector that required a series of difficult spacewalking repairs is back in action. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is working better than ever, Samuel Ting, the Nobel laureate who ...

April 10, 2011 Samuel Ting’s space odyssey A long time ago, in a university not far away, this MIT physicist hatched a plan for a bold experiment in space. Now, $1.5 billion and nearly two decades ...