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What Impossible Meant to Richard Feynman

What I learned when I challenged the legendary physicist.

November 24, 2021

What You’re Doing Right Now Is Proof of Quantum Theory

Running a computer underscores how quantum physics is remaking our world.

November 24, 2021

Neuroscience Weighs in on Physics’ Biggest Questions

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

October 13, 2021

How I Escaped My Troubles Through Science

My life in theoretical physics took a fateful turn after 9/11.

August 25, 2021

The Math of Living Things

Exploring the intersection of physical and biological laws.

June 23, 2021

Is the Universe Open-Ended?

An intriguing proposal about what makes reality tick under the surface.

June 16, 2021

Our Little Life Is Rounded with Possibility

Science expressed only in terms of what happens is getting in the way of progress.

June 9, 2021

The Country Gentleman of Physics

Julian Barbour’s ideas about time and the universe have always roamed free of academia.

May 12, 2021

This Tenet Shows Time Travel May Be Possible

Director Christopher Nolan could take a tip from new research into “closed timelike curves.”

March 24, 2021

The Charmed Life of Frank Wilczek

A novelist gets a physicist to explain his scientific breakthroughs.

March 17, 2021

The Joy of Condensed Matter

Hard times in fundamental physics got you down? Let’s talk excitons.

February 24, 2021

Time Flows Toward Order

Revisiting the gospel of the second law of thermodynamics.

December 2, 2020