Graff has had a busy 2025. This spring, his 7-part podcast series dropped, “Breaking the Internet.” In it, he explores how a tool that promised to bring people together has instead driven them apart ...

Plus “The Original” by Nell Stevens and “The Hounding” by Xenobe Purvis.

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, written in the wake of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, when the U.S. and Soviet Union were racing to ...

But researchers still disagree widely on how best to describe the physical reality that lies behind the mathematics, as a ...

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Expansion Project by Ben Pester and The Republic of Parenthood by Rhiannon Lucy ...

Immediately after the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was dominated by unimaginably high ...

The history of race relations in Oak Ridge. Christmas vase making. Honeybees. K-25. A wide range of topics are offered for ...

When a German physicist returned from a health retreat 100 years ago, his ideas sparked a debate about reality, and gave rise to quantum mechanics — the "spooky" science of the very small.

French researcher Olivier Wieviorka has published ‘The Total History of the Second World War’ on the 80th anniversary of the ...

One of the biggest challenges in modern physics is uniting quantum mechanics and general relativity. A new experiment may ...