Physics
Nostalgia Just Became a Law of Nature
New theories have mixed perception and knowledge into the hardest of sciences.
The Loneliest Genius
Isaac Newton spurned social contact but also relied on it for his greatest work.
Who Really Found the Higgs Boson
The real genius in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery is not who you think it is.
The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
The 1883 eruption on Krakatoa may be the loudest noise the Earth has ever made.
Ingenious: Paul J. Steinhardt
The Princeton physicist on what’s wrong with inflation theory and his view of the Big Bang.
The Big Bang Is Hard Science. It Is Also a Creation Story.
Even with its explanatory power, Big Bang theory takes its place in a long line of myths.
