This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A new debate has recently emerged as to ...

“I got used to the idea that questions had answers.” Sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation; By Summer Ash An active proponent of education, diversity and communication, Sylvester James Gates is ...

Faster-than-light (FTL) travel is a staple of sci-fi, hand-waving away multi-millennia journeys between stars. Such a technology would of course be incredibly handy to us in the real world, and while ...

Melba Phillips, who grew up on a farm in Indiana at the turn of the 20th century, was one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s first graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley. Together they ...

THIS book is vibrating with dynamical modernity, and proves in effect that Theoretical Dynamics has not yet been reduced to the level of one of the Exact Sciences; and so it shows little tendency to ...

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