This photograph won honorable mention in the photography category of the sixth annual International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge in 2008. Over 21 countries were represented with ...

In October 1984 I arrived at Oxford University, trailing a large steamer trunk containing a couple of changes of clothing and about five dozen textbooks. I had a freshly minted bachelor’s degree in ...

String theory challenges this by proposing that at the heart of every particle is a tiny, vibrating string-like filament. And, according to the theory, the differences between one particle and another ...

WITH reference to the letter of Mr. Stanley in NATURE, vol. xxvi. p. 243, I notice the following sentence:—“If we may apply this principle to stringed instruments, we must look rather to the bridge ...

Inventor Paul Vo‘s latest crazy musical innovation is a hand-held wand that changes the sound of guitars like magic. Hold it up to a guitar string, and it’ll vibrate forever. Depending how you use the ...

In my last post, Artificial Intelligence and the Shape of Reality, I jumped off the deep end and explored an idea that surprised even me as I wrote it—that the high-dimensional space in which large ...