Physics

Meet the 18-year-old whose work is already stretching our understanding of the universe.

• By Avital Andrews

Terrence Sejnowski talks to Pacific Standard about searching for Sputnik, receiving pleasure reading material from a Nobel Prize winner, and being a science nerd.

• By Noah Davis

Noah Davis talks to the founder of Wolfram Alpha about computing the world's knowledge, how his kids got him to start traveling, and why he's not scared of AI.

• By Noah Davis

History, science, and art.

• By Francie Diep

We should re-think the subject boundaries in high school education so that they align with important ideas and concepts that will give our children useful analytical lenses for viewing the world.

• By Eric Horowitz

Not according to a pair of quantum physicists.

• By Ryan Jacobs

Parents with multiple ex-partners and children can plan their weekend custody schedules with a not-so-simple mathematical model.

• By Bettina Chang

An attempt to locate chrononauts on the Internet has failed.

• By Ryan Jacobs

From babies' tantrums to labor strikes to guerrilla wars to global terrorism, there may be one simple math equation, a power law, that benchmarks them all. Better yet, it may allow us to predict these confrontations' future.

• By Michael Todd

A new analysis of the gender gap in physics assessments between male and female students doesn't solve the STEM disparity, but it's a good primer on current thought.

• By Michael Todd

What Jimmie Johnson and Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., owe to a PhD in the pit crew.

• By Vince Beiser