Amanda Gefter
What Science Forgets
Human experience must be factored into science. The authors of a new manifesto argue why.
Tesla’s Pigeon
An inventor, a bird, and a plan to connect all the minds in the world.
What Plants Are Saying About Us
Your brain is not the root of cognition.
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.
The Bridge From Nowhere
How is it possible to get something from nothing?
Haunted by His Brother, He Revolutionized Physics
To John Archibald Wheeler, the race to explain time was personal.