physics
Why the Flow of Time Is an Illusion
Getting human feeling to match the math is an ultimate goal in physics.
When Beauty Gets in the Way of Science
Insisting that new ideas must be beautiful blocks progress in particle physics.
How the Universe Remembers Information
A “memory matrix” might solve Stephen Hawking’s black-hole paradox.
How to Get Close to a Black Hole
Want to understand the most mysterious object in the universe? Make one at home.
How Supermassive Black Holes Were Discovered
Astronomers turned a fantastic concept into reality.
What Impossible Meant to Feynman
Physicist Paul Steinhardt remembers a great mentor and scientist.
Paradox Is Illuminating the Black Hole
How reconciling opposites is driving the science of black holes forward.
How Black Holes Nearly Ruined Time
Quantum mechanics rescued our understanding of past and future from the black hole.
The Present Phase of Stagnation in the Foundations of Physics Is Not Normal
The problem is loads of wrong predictions from theoretical physicists.
Have Balloons and Ice Broken the Standard Model?
How five anomalous events at two neutrino experiments provide evidence for supersymmetry.