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Is Your Theory of Everything Pure Enough?
Fundamental theories of nature aren’t allowed to hide information.
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.
Ingenious: Paul J. Steinhardt
The Princeton physicist on what’s wrong with inflation theory and his view of the Big Bang.
Ingenious: Alan Lightman
The physicist on writing, the writer on physics.
The Bridge From Nowhere
How is it possible to get something from nothing?
What’s 250 Million Light-Years Big, Almost Empty, and Full of Answers?
Astronomers are using new tools in their search for cosmic voids.
Do We Have the Big Bang Theory All Wrong?
One physicist’s radical reinterpretation of the cosmic microwave background.
To Predict Turbulence, Just Count the Puffs
These tiny swirls of fluid live, die, reproduce, and spark turbulence.
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