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Neuroscience Weighs in on Physics’ Biggest Questions

A theory of consciousness can help build a theory of everything.

October 13, 2021

I Built My Own Artificial Neural Network

With a little help from one of the 2024 Nobel Prize Winners in Physics.

September 29, 2020

The Forest Spirits of Today Are Computers

We’ve made an artificially panpsychic world, where technology and nature are one.

February 26, 2020

What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move?

Earth’s tremors can tweak your GPS coordinates.

January 22, 2020

A Hologram Shows How Space Could Pop Into Existence

The holographic principle—with a real hologram.

September 4, 2019

Yes, Determinists, There Is Free Will

You make choices even if your atoms don’t.

May 13, 2019

How the Universe Remembers Information

A “memory matrix” might solve Stephen Hawking’s black-hole paradox.

February 25, 2019

A Theory of Consciousness Can Help Build a Theory of Everything

Neuroscience is weighing in on physics’ biggest questions.

April 27, 2017

The Noise at the Bottom of the Universe

The origin of quantum noise is the modern incarnation of a millennia-old debate.

July 11, 2016

Let’s Rethink Space

Does space exist without objects, or is it made by them?

January 11, 2016

The Case for Fewer Dimensions

At small scales, gravity seems to blow up—but not if space becomes 1-D.

October 1, 2015

The Quantum Mechanics of Fate

How time travel might explain some of science’s biggest puzzles.

January 21, 2014