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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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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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Heart of Darkness
Subir Sarkar
Is the standard model of cosmology wrong? Subir Sarkar argues that the discovery of dark energy, the basis of widely accepted models, was simply an accident waiting to happen.
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The Nature of Art
Armand Marie Leroi
Can pieces of art be related in the way that biological species can? In living things, phylogenic links are forged by the inheritance of genetic material; in culture, by influential ideas.
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Thunder Out of China
Yuri Deigin
Questions about the origins of COVID-19 are of more than academic interest. For the moment, the best explanation seems to be that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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Battlefield Medicine
Benjamin Davido
The AstraZeneca debacle in France, at the least, showed that to stop vaccinating for 48–72 hours in the name of the precautionary principle is to restart work on vaccine awareness from scratch.
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Monetary Faith
Philip Pilkington
Central banks argue that economists should have faith in the natural interest rate and try their best to accommodate the banking system to it. But shouldn’t it rather be judged by its works?
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On the Futility of Contact Tracing
Jay Bhattacharya & Mikko Packalen
Contact tracing may be useful when the number of cases in an epidemic is very small, and only if it is applied aggressively. In cases that do not fit this description, it may make an outbreak worse.
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The Dark Matter Enigma
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Unveiling the nature of dark matter is one of the biggest challenges in astrophysics. Jean-Pierre Luminet confronts the many unresolved questions that obscure this perplexing aspect of our universe.
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