It is unusual for TV news to open with a story about physics, but it happened on July 4, 2012, when all around the world stations chose to devote prime time to breaking news from Geneva: a search of ...
Adapted excerpt from Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, by Sabine Hossenfelder. Copyright © 2018. Available from Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books ...
Should physicists feel guilty about working on ideas with no real-world consequences, just because they’re intellectually beautiful? How should such work be evaluated? These questions arise often in ...
Fish and birds, when moving in groups, use two “gears”—one slow and another fast—in ways that conserve energy. Scientists made the discovery using a technique that mimics infinitely large schools or ...
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