Sidney Perkowitz

A humble steam engineer put humans in the driver’s seat.

Why dangerous crowds behave the way they do.

Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.

AI-powered chatbots get science facts basically right, but their reasoning is still shallow.

Today’s brain-computer interfaces perform medical miracles. Beyond the clinic is another story.

Seven years after their discovery, the ripples in spacetime have opened new windows on the universe’s deepest secrets.

Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source?