Without different anatomical proportions, a scaled-up body would collapse under its own weight.
Joel David Hamkins | Aug 13
Though wary of organized religion, the physicist believed that the harmony of universal laws pointed to a higher power.
Gerald Holton | Mar 2
Women in physics have long been forced out of the field, and out of the story.
Shohini Ghose | Aug 26, 2025
While the odds are slim, neutrino technology may be the best — and perhaps only — way to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations.
Alan Chodos & James Riordon | Oct 17, 2024
Notes on interstellar hitchhikers and the origins of life.
Roberto Battiston | Aug 3, 2023
Drawings and short essays offer an illuminating peek into the history of scientific thought.
Don S. Lemons | Jan 3, 2023
Jeremy Bernstein recounts his half-century friendship with the renowned scientist and visionary.
Jeremy Bernstein | Oct 20, 2022
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses free will, time travel, and the relationship between innovation and scientific discovery.
Adolfo Plasencia | May 23, 2022
Alain Bécoulet, author of "Star Power: ITER and the International Quest for Fusion Energy," on the history of nuclear power.
Alain Bécoulet | Feb 17, 2022
Despite bold philosophical and scientific claims, there’s still no good reason to doubt the existence of free will.
Mark Balaguer | Jan 27, 2022
