Science is our joyful adventure, the “greatest detective story in the world,” TV icon and devoted science communicator Alan Alda told a packed and appreciative Alumni Arena crowd Wednesday night at ...

NEW YORK - Actor Alan Alda speaks at the 2008 World Science Festival Announcement on April 2, 2008 at the Kimmel Center in New York City. (Photo by Joe Kohen/WireImage) In Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of ...

Steve Adubato goes One-on-One with Alan Alda, the legendary, award-winning actor and author and visiting prrofessor and co-founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook ...

More than 40 years after "M*A*S*H" bid farewell to television audiences, its most iconic character is finally giving up his boots and dog tags — with the proceeds going to support the Alan Alda Center ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. In the first part of this interview series with Alan Alda, we covered ...

A few months go, actor (and frustrated scientist) Alan Alda sent out a challenge to scientists from all over the world to answer the question, "What is a flame?" in video form. More than 800 videos ...

Actor Alan Alda's wisdom on assumptions offers a powerful lesson: our beliefs act as windows to the world. He urges us to regularly 'scrub' these assumptions, much like cleaning a dusty pane, to allow ...

In the decades since he made his name in the much-loved comedy-drama M*A*S*H, Alan Alda has developed a successful parallel career as a science communicator – and he is behind two long-running popular ...

“I personally think that training in the arts prepares a growing child just as well for a scientific or technical career as [does] training in STEM subjects, if not better, because the arts train a ...

Alan Alda, the star of the long-running sitcom, asked the artificial intelligence software to create a script for him and his former co-star Mike Farrell to read. By Julia Jacobs Five decades ago, ...