302 | Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution
Randomness plays an important role in the evolution of life (as my evil twin will tell you). But random doesn’t […]
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Physics
300 | Solo: Does Time Exist?
A new year, and a new centennial — 300 (regularly-numbered) episodes of Mindscape! Our tradition is to have a solo
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Holiday Message | Hits and Misses
It’s the end of the year, and time for our annual holiday break here at Mindscape. But as usual, we
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289 | Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments
As an experimental facility, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva has been extraordinarily successful, discovering the Higgs boson
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277 | Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory
String theory, the current leading candidate for a theory of quantum gravity as well as other particles and forces, doesn’t
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275 | Solo: Quantum Fields, Particles, Forces, and Symmetries
Publication week! Say hello to Quanta and Fields, the second volume of the planned three-volume series The Biggest Ideas in
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271 | Claudia de Rham on Modifying General Relativity
Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been our best understanding of gravity for over a century, withstanding a variety of
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268 | Matt Strassler on Relativity, Fields, and the Language of Reality
In the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell argued that light was a wave of electric and magnetic fields. But it took
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263 | Chris Quigg on Symmetry and the Birth of the Standard Model
Einstein’s theory of general relativity is distinguished by its singular simplicity and beauty. The Standard Model of Particle Physics, by
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253 | David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation
David Deutsch is one of the most creative scientific thinkers working today, who has as a goal to understand and
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