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 ...

Leo's Fortune is a beautiful physics-based puzzle-platformer that shines as one of the iPad's best games ever. Repetitive use of some obstacles. iPad games that have attempted to emulate the ...

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 ...

The Matter of Everything tells the history of physics through experiments. Any book about the history of science for a general audience will, of necessity, be something of a distortion. The question ...

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Matter of Everything tells the history of physics through experiments. Any book about the history of science for a general audience ...

BIG science tends to get bigger with time. The first modern particle accelerator, Ernest Lawrence’s cyclotron, was 10cm across and thus fitted comfortably on a benchtop. It cost (admittedly at 1932 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the ...

Award-winning physicist Dr Mark Mitchison describes the situation for early-career researchers in Ireland as ‘dire’ because of a lack of support. Scientific curiosity runs in the family for physicist ...