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A Brief History of the Grand Unified Theory of Physics

It’s the best of times or the worst of times in physics.

March 10, 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

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

Spark of Science: Melissa Franklin

Harvard’s first tenured woman physicist tells us about her heroes and her work.

December 20, 2016

When Einstein Tilted at Windmills

The young physicist’s quest to prove the theories of Ernst Mach.

November 28, 2016

The Astrophysicists Who Faked It

The inside story of the gravitational wave signal injection.

How Einstein and Schrödinger Conspired to Kill a Cat

The rise of fascism shaped Schrödinger’s cat fable.

October 7, 2016

A Nonlinear History of Time Travel

Births, deaths, and other time travel paradoxes.

September 22, 2016

How Much More Can We Learn About the Universe?

These are the few limits on our ability to know.

August 25, 2016

Her Second Act: Fotini Markopoulou on Life Beyond Physics

It was time to work with her hands, not only her mind.

July 19, 2016