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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

The Beauty of Crossed Brain Wires

Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous.

August 18, 2021

The Math of Living Things

Exploring the intersection of physical and biological laws.

June 23, 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

A Supermassive Lens on the Constants of Nature

What this year’s Nobel-winning discovery of the black hole at our galaxy’s center reveals.

November 25, 2020

The Bias in the Machine

Why facial recognition has led to false arrests.

August 19, 2020

The Power of Crossed Brain Wires

Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous.

June 17, 2020

Only Disconnect! A Pandemic Reading of E.M. Forster

The astonishing relevance of the British writer’s story, “The Machine Stops.”

March 25, 2020

If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist

Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source?

November 27, 2019