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Reflections on an Essay by Wigner
Sergiu Klainerman
In a new essay, Sergiu Klainerman retraces the development of modern mathematics, unexpected consequences in physics, and the perennial question of whether mathematics is itself a science.
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Wacky Jabber
Douglas Hofstadter
A sweetish suite of machine translations of a pseudo-Swedish paragraph concocted by Douglas Hofstadter. The resulting gobbledygook reveals the zombie-like nature of these highly vaunted programs.
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A First Year of Discovery
Casey Papovich
As one of the scientists who will be using the James Webb Space Telescope, Casey Papovich examines how the Webb may answer deep questions about exoplanets and the formation of the first galaxies.
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Bacterial Swimming
Nicholas Taylor
Bacterial motility is powered by the rotation of its filaments, or flagella. Over the past fifty years, imaging advances have allowed the piecing together of the flagellar motor’s organization.
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Long Thoughts
Rufin VanRullen
Were consciousness to be updated only twice per second, as some claim, decisions would take place during an unconscious processing stage, meaning our free will might just be an illusion.
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A Mirror of Nature
Mike Edmunds
The Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical calculator found in a first-century BCE shipwreck, has proven to be mechanically more sophisticated than anything known from the subsequent millennium.
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Agents in the Ether
David Kordahl
In Imperial Science, Bruce Hunt details how the desire for quick communications across the British Empire, drove progress in the physical sciences towards a theory of the electromagnetic field.
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The Kilogram
Jeremy Bernstein
Prior to 2018, the standard for the kilogram was a platinum alloy cylinder created in 1889 and stored in Paris. In this note, Jeremy Bernstein explains how the kilogram is now defined using fundamental constants.
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The Quest for Fusion Energy
Daniel Jassby
Despite repeated claims that the prospects for commercialization have never looked brighter, the stark reality is that practical fusion-based electric power remains a very distant prospect.
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