Truth, Lies & Uncertainty
Searching for reality in unreal times
Searching for reality in unreal times
Scientific American 's chief features editor Seth Fletcher talks about his book Einstein's Shadow, an account of the long effort to image a black hole that recently came to fruition...
After more than a decade of effort, a global network of radio telescopes revealed the first-ever picture of an enigmatic hole in spacetime
The Event Horizon Telescope’s historic quest to image the “shadow” of a supermassive black hole is off to an auspicious start
If we survive the election, naturally
Part science documentary, part meditation on the meaning of life, director Terrence Malik’s (“The Tree of Life,” “The Thin Red Line”) new IMAX movie “Voyage of Time” is hard to categorize...
The astrophysicist and author talks about her new book, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Scientific American editors Mark Fischetti, Dina Maron and Seth Fletcher talk about the info they picked up at the just-concluded annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C...
It could mark the birth of a new kind of astronomy
The Harvard physicist explains the collaboration's long-awaited research on the black-hole information paradox
The long list of unanswered questions about black holes contains one particularly surprising item: How do they eat? Unlike many of the riddles that black holes pose, this one seems so simple: What do you mean we don’t know how things fall into a black hole?...
Conductive polymer mesh could be a boon to brain research
The first theory proposed to explain the universe's strangest galaxies has had impressive staying power
During a historic European heat wave, 36 Nobel laureates signed a declaration on climate change—and tried to shout down the science-denying claims of one of their own
Nobelist Harold Varmus on the promise of a new generation of cancer treatments—and the big challenges that remain
Controversy aside, work on NASA’s next deep-space rocket continues unabated
The technique that the astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) use to observe black holes is called Very Long Baseline Interferometry, or VLBI, but it might as well be called Extremely Delayed Gratification Astronomy: it can take weeks or months after an observing run to find out whether the telescope array actually saw anything...
The technologies chip makers hope can keep Moore’s Law alive
Imagine a trio of aerobatic aircraft. Over the years they've gotten very good at their routine. But they want to add another five or six or seven members.
The technologies chip makers hope can keep Moore’s Law alive
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