Sidney Perkowitz
What You’re Doing Right Now Is Proof of Quantum Theory
Running a computer underscores how quantum physics is remaking our world.
The Beauty of Crossed Brain Wires
Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous.
The Math of Living Things
Exploring the intersection of physical and biological laws.
This Tenet Shows Time Travel May Be Possible
Director Christopher Nolan could take a tip from new research into “closed timelike curves.”
A Supermassive Lens on the Constants of Nature
What this year’s Nobel-winning discovery of the black hole at our galaxy’s center reveals.
The Bias in the Machine
Why facial recognition has led to false arrests.
The Power of Crossed Brain Wires
Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous.
Only Disconnect! A Pandemic Reading of E.M. Forster
The astonishing relevance of the British writer’s story, “The Machine Stops.”
If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist
Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source?
If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist
Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source?