
Learning to Live in Steven Weinberg’s Pointless Universe
The late physicist’s most infamous statement still beguiles scientists and vexes believers
The late physicist’s most infamous statement still beguiles scientists and vexes believers
New experimental results suggest these long-sought subatomic particles could explain the universe’s missing mass
It worked for Shakespeare and Isaac Newton during plagues, but let’s not put more pressure on ourselves than we already have
Scientists are finally approaching a consensus on the decades-old question
Physicists, philosophers debate whether research can ever solve certain mysteries of the universe—and the human mind
In non-Western societies criminal intent can matter less when judging wrongdoing
Building on advances in object recognition, machine translation and neural networks, scientists have developed software that converts pictures into sentences
In his latest book Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg explores how science made the modern world, and where it might take us from here
This winter an airborne experiment named Spider will probe the earliest remnants of the universe
Dan Falk discusses his latest book, The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
Dan Falk discusses his latest book, The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
William Shakespeare may well have been more aware of his era’s science—including the Copernican view that the planets revolve around the sun—than has generally been thought...
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