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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

Academics need to think harder about the purpose of their disciplines and whether some of those should come to an end

"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

Sheldon Glashow concludes his three-part series of essays on the history of physics with the story of the Standard Model.

In The Web of Meaning, Jeremy Lent favours convenient ideas over accurate, and repeatedly presents speculative and disproven theories as fact

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.

String theory might be the theory of everything… or a flawed framework for theoretical physics.

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