Physics

After a decade, Peter Woit still thinks string theory is a gory mess.

Meet the avalanche engineers of the Subzero Laboratory.

Portable slow-light technology could measure the speed of glaciers in real time.

From computational complexity to quantum mechanics.

Fundamental theories of nature aren’t allowed to hide information.

Fundamental theories of nature aren’t allowed to hide information.

New theories have mixed perception and knowledge into the hardest of sciences.

Isaac Newton spurned social contact but also relied on it for his greatest work.

The real genius in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery is not who you think it is.