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February 7, 2024
Physicists’ search for a theory that explains all reality in one framework appeared to have stalled. But now they are reinvigorating the hunt by exploring a wild landscape of abstract geometry
October 5, 2023
Academics need to think harder about the purpose of their disciplines and whether some of those should come to an end
August 31, 2023
"Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it -- and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvelous discovery and an artist making a painting." -Carlo Rubbia, famous and infamous Nobel Prize-winning physicist
July 23, 2023
Sheldon Glashow concludes his three-part series of essays on the history of physics with the story of the Standard Model.
March 2, 2023
In The Web of Meaning, Jeremy Lent favours convenient ideas over accurate, and repeatedly presents speculative and disproven theories as fact
December 2, 2022
For the first time, scientists have created a quantum computing experiment for studying the dynamics of wormholes – that is, shortcuts through spacetime that could get around relativity's cosmic speed limits.
January 20, 2022
String theory might be the theory of everything… or a flawed framework for theoretical physics.
January 1, 2022
Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. We deliver big-picture science by reporting on a single monthly topic from multiple perspectives. Read a new chapter in the story every Thursday.
February 25, 2021
Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. We deliver big-picture science by reporting on a single monthly topic from multiple perspectives. Read a new chapter in the story every Thursday.