AnimalsJuly 17, 2024
These Animals are Physics Whizzes
How falling cats, slithering snakes, burrowing prairie dogs and more exploit the laws of physics
Stories by Tom Siegfried
Tom Siegfried is a science journalist in Avon, Ohio. His book The Number of the Heavens, about the history of the multiverse, was published in 2019 by Harvard University Press.
The SciencesJanuary 21, 2020
Physicists Probe Validity of Einstein’s Gravity on Cosmic Scales
New tests could verify the general theory of relativity, or find flaws
OpinionDecember 3, 2019
Long Live the Multiverse!
The idea that our universe is just part of a much vaster cosmos has a long history—and it’s still very much with us