Amanda Gefter
The Most Precarious Day in the Universe
On the same day the world descended into war, physicists saw reality itself unraveling
What Is Intelligence?
At a church in Italy, we sought to shed an old definition for one that could save us
What Science Forgets
Human experience must be factored into science. The authors of a new manifesto argue why.
The Inflated Debate Over Cosmic Inflation
Why the majority of physicists are on one side of a recent exchange of letters.
When Einstein Tilted at Windmills
The young physicist’s quest to prove the theories of Ernst Mach.
Quantum Mechanics Is Putting Human Identity on Trial
If our particles have no identity, how can we?
The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.