Stories by Sabine Hossenfelder

A collaborative center will help climate scientists build better models for prevention and mitigation

Two physicists object to a Scientific American essay calling for an end to one climate report. A science historian counters that the report has done its job

The discrepancy between the theoretical prediction and the experimentally determined value of the muon’s magnetic moment has become slightly stronger with a new result from Fermilab. But what does it mean?

It would cost many billions of dollars, the potential rewards are unclear—and the money could be better spent researching threats such as climate change and emerging viruses

They don’t necessarily try to predict what will happen—but they can help us understand possible futures

Since Newton, the foundations of physics progressed in a virtuous cycle of hypothesis and experiment until the cycle broke 40 years ago. A bigger collider will not solve the problem

Astrophysicists have piled up observations that are difficult to explain with dark matter. It is time to consider that there may be more to gravity than Einstein taught us

A physicist decries the trend of chasing after aesthetically pleasing theories that lack empirical evidence

Einstein’s thought experiments left a long and somewhat mixed legacy of their own