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Physics

Dark Matter Is Our Friend

Without the extra heft of dark matter, you wouldn’t be here.

February 7, 2017

What Quantum Gravity Needs Is More Experiments

Math won’t solve quantum gravity. Experimentation will.

January 31, 2017

The Multiverse Is an Ancient Idea

Turns out, we've been debating the notion of infinite worlds for millennia.

January 30, 2017

The Multiple Multiverses May Be One and the Same

If multiverses seem weird, it’s because we need to revamp our notions of time and space.

January 24, 2017

Droplets That “Come to Life”

Life might have originated in droplets that behave surprisingly like living cells.

January 23, 2017

Fictional Multiverses Are Frankly Kind of Lame

And sorry, Eleven, but psychic powers won’t transport you to another world.

January 19, 2017

Graph Isomorphism Vanquished—Again

László Babai has fixed the flaw in his retracted claim.

January 18, 2017

The Not-So-Fine Tuning of the Universe

There’s more than one way to build a universe suitable for life.

January 13, 2017

Even Physicists Find the Multiverse Faintly Disturbing

It’s not the immensity or inscrutability, but that it reduces physical law to happenstance.

January 9, 2017

The Not-So-Fine Tuning of the Universe

There’s more than one way to build a universe suitable for life.

January 6, 2017