Space & PhysicsJanuary 18, 2019
Has LIGO Seen Galaxy-Warped Gravitational Waves?
Nobel laureate George Smoot claims LIGO has observed amplified signals of black hole mergers from the very distant universe, but LIGO scientists disagree
Stories by Anil Ananthaswamy
Anil Ananthaswamy is author of The Edge of Physics (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), The Man Who Wasn't There (Dutton, 2015), Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality (Dutton, 2018), and Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI (Dutton, 2024).
OpinionSeptember 3, 2018
What Does Quantum Theory Actually Tell Us about Reality?
Nearly a century after its founding, physicists and philosophers still don’t know—but they’re working on it
The SciencesJuly 10, 2018
The Human Eye Could Help Test Quantum Mechanics
Experiments to confirm we can see single photons offer new ways to probe our understanding of quantum reality