British scientist Stephen Hawking missed a scientific debate marking his 70th birthday as he was only discharged from hospital two days earlier.

As Stephen Hawking turns 70 this week, scientists are baffled how he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease.

A belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.

God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the universe, UK scientist Stephen Hawking said in extracts published from a new book.

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Stephen Hawking has bet $100 that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science.

May was a momentous month for advanced scientific research and training in South Africa. Physicist Stephen Hawking was among our international guests.

World famous scientist Stephen Hawking met former president Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on Thursday. Said Hawking: "I admire how you managed to find a peaceful solution to a situation that seemed doomed to disaster. It was one of the great achievements of the 20th century."

He's been described as science's first real rock star and the most famous physicist never to win a Nobel Prize. He knows black holes and p-branes inside out and he's headed for South Africa. Cambridge Professor Stephen Hawking, author of the best-selling A Brief History of Time, arrives in Cape Town this week to deliver a public lecture, his first on the African continent.

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