By: Tor Aarestad

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”

By: Joshua Glenn

HiLo Gift Ideas 2011 (#2)

By: Joshua Glenn

“These people want to be at home in the Universe.”

By: Joshua Glenn

Over at Significant Objects today, Margaret Wertheim of the admirable Institute for Figuring tells a story about an owl-shaped pincushion and its role in the discovery that Leibniz was right to reject Newton’s notion of […]

By: Matthew Battles

As reported in the New York Times and elsewhere, a pair of physicists have offered a novel theory to explain the troubles bedeviling the Large Hadron Collidor, the world’s most powerful — and to date, […]

By: Tor Aarestad

Was he the original cyberpunk?