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Physics

The Admiral of the String Theory Wars

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

May 4, 2015

How a Snowflake Turns Into an Avalanche

Meet the avalanche engineers of the Subzero Laboratory.

March 26, 2015

How To Clock a Glacier

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

March 4, 2015

Ingenious: Scott Aaronson

From computational complexity to quantum mechanics.

January 29, 2015

Is Your Theory of Everything Pure Enough?

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

January 29, 2015

Is Your Theory of Everything Pure Enough?

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

January 29, 2015

Nostalgia Just Became a Law of Nature

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

January 29, 2015

The Loneliest Genius

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

November 20, 2014

Who Really Found the Higgs Boson

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

October 2, 2014