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Sarthak Parikh and Kush Dhebar won the 2023-’24 India Science Book Fellowship from the Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology India.

He was born exactly 300 years after Galileo died. He never won a Nobel Prize, although he was awarded a guest spot on “The Simpsons.” What else do you know (or not know) about this acclaimed physicist?

Editor’s note: Since 2015, the Simons Foundation has supported the “It from Qubit” collaboration, a group of scientists drawing on ideas from quantum information theory to address deep issues in fundamental physics. The collaboration held its “Last Hurrah” event at Perimeter Institute last week. Here is a transcript of remarks by John Preskill at the…

The superconductor frenzy, explained.

Google claims its hit a major milestone by achieving quantum supremacy - creating a device that solves problems no existing computer is capable of.

Google’s most advanced computer isn’t at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, nor anywhere in the febrile sprawl of Silicon Valley. It’s a few hours’ drive south in Santa Barbara, in a flat, soulless office park inhabited mostly by technology firms you’ve never heard of. An open-plan office holds several dozen desks. There’s an…

Equations dont sell. Pop science editors tell us that each equation added to a book halves its sales figure. If this is true, Sir Roger Penroses Cycles of Time, which was recently released in the US, and which I can testify sold at least one copy, would have sold by the billions if only the editor would have scrapped half of the equations.

Astronomers have long contemplated the possibility that there may be forms of matter in the universe that are imperceptible, either because they are too far away, too dim or intrinsically invisible. Lord Kelvin was perhaps the first, in 1904, to attempt a dynamical estimate of the amount of dark matter in the universe. His argument […]

For the past century the biggest bar fight in science has been between Albert Einstein and himself...

WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden announced the appointment of the following individuals to serve in key roles: Dr. Kathryn Ann Moler, Co-Chair, Nationa