https://inference-review.com/article/ en info@inference-review.com Copyright 2026 2026-09-21T09:25:00+00:00 Sergiu Klainerman https://inference-review.com/article/ai-will-not-make-mathematicians-obsolete https://inference-review.com/article/ai-will-not-make-mathematicians-obsolete#When:09:25:00Z 2026-09-21T09:25:00+00:00 Amélie Dupont https://inference-review.com/article/the-millennium-problem https://inference-review.com/article/the-millennium-problem#When:08:29:00Z 2026-09-18T08:29:00+00:00 Jean-Pierre Luminet https://inference-review.com/article/twin-universes-and-bimetric-gravity https://inference-review.com/article/twin-universes-and-bimetric-gravity#When:07:23:00Z 2026-09-16T07:23:00+00:00 David Lobina https://inference-review.com/article/imagine-an-organism https://inference-review.com/article/imagine-an-organism#When:13:01:00Z 2026-08-24T13:01:00+00:00 David Boos https://inference-review.com/article/the-film-that-launched-a-thousand-tweets https://inference-review.com/article/the-film-that-launched-a-thousand-tweets#When:21:10:00Z 2026-08-11T21:10:00+00:00 David Berlinski https://inference-review.com/article/on-doing-otherwise https://inference-review.com/article/on-doing-otherwise#When:22:30:00Z Determined, dismiss free will as an illusion. David Berlinski subjects the claim to a sustained logical analysis, tracing what "could have done otherwise" must mean across its modal and causal commitments, and reaches a contrary conclusion: that acting freely is a matter of how one acts, not of what one might instead have done.]]> 2026-06-21T22:30:00+00:00 Sheldon Lee Glashow https://inference-review.com/article/an-abecedary-of-scientific-serendipity https://inference-review.com/article/an-abecedary-of-scientific-serendipity#When:10:11:00Z serendipity, the art of stumbling on fortunate discoveries while searching for something else, was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In an alphabetical tour running from the first aniline dye to the science of fermentation, Nobel laureate Sheldon Lee Glashow recounts twenty-six episodes in which accident and a prepared mind reshaped science, among them Botox, dynamite, gamma-ray bursts, LSD, the microwave oven, pulsars, radioactivity and Viagra.]]> 2026-06-03T10:11:00+00:00 Pierre Schapira https://inference-review.com/article/a-truncated-manuscript https://inference-review.com/article/a-truncated-manuscript#When:15:22:00Z Récoltes et Semailles, it was a lengthy, philosophical and deeply personal tract from the elusive mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, by then living in self-imposed seclusion. Now published officially for the first time, Pierre Schapira casts a critical eye over the book and some notable omissions.]]> 2022-12-30T15:22:00+00:00 The Editors https://inference-review.com/article/2022-the-year-in-review https://inference-review.com/article/2022-the-year-in-review#When:15:19:00Z The Rambler.]]> 2022-12-29T15:19:00+00:00 Daniel Jassby https://inference-review.com/article/on-the-laser-fusion-milestone https://inference-review.com/article/on-the-laser-fusion-milestone#When:17:40:00Z 2022-12-20T17:40:00+00:00 Charles Lineweaver https://inference-review.com/article/planetary-intelligence https://inference-review.com/article/planetary-intelligence#When:13:12:00Z 2022-12-13T13:12:00+00:00 Hilde De Weerdt https://inference-review.com/article/the-chinese-civil-examinations https://inference-review.com/article/the-chinese-civil-examinations#When:12:37:00Z 2022-12-05T12:37:00+00:00 Lambert Meertens https://inference-review.com/article/the-origins-of-python https://inference-review.com/article/the-origins-of-python#When:14:35:00Z 2022-11-24T14:35:00+00:00 Linda Bartoshuk https://inference-review.com/article/the-scent-of-flavor https://inference-review.com/article/the-scent-of-flavor#When:12:21:00Z 2022-11-08T12:21:00+00:00 Allyn Jackson https://inference-review.com/article/when-existence-is-inefficient https://inference-review.com/article/when-existence-is-inefficient#When:10:09:00Z 2022-10-24T10:09:00+00:00 Partha Ghose https://inference-review.com/article/counting-in-the-dark https://inference-review.com/article/counting-in-the-dark#When:16:00:00Z 2022-10-11T16:00:00+00:00 Sergiu Klainerman https://inference-review.com/article/reflections-on-an-essay-by-wigner https://inference-review.com/article/reflections-on-an-essay-by-wigner#When:14:14:00Z 2022-10-03T14:14:00+00:00 Douglas Hofstadter https://inference-review.com/article/wacky-jabber https://inference-review.com/article/wacky-jabber#When:12:05:00Z 2022-09-29T12:05:00+00:00 Casey Papovich https://inference-review.com/article/a-first-year-of-discovery https://inference-review.com/article/a-first-year-of-discovery#When:14:57:00Z 2022-07-08T14:57:00+00:00 Nicholas Taylor https://inference-review.com/article/bacterial-swimming https://inference-review.com/article/bacterial-swimming#When:12:48:00Z 2022-07-01T12:48:00+00:00 Rufin VanRullen https://inference-review.com/article/long-thoughts https://inference-review.com/article/long-thoughts#When:15:25:00Z 2022-06-17T15:25:00+00:00 Mike Edmunds https://inference-review.com/article/a-mirror-of-nature https://inference-review.com/article/a-mirror-of-nature#When:07:00:00Z 2022-06-10T07:00:00+00:00 David Kordahl https://inference-review.com/article/agents-in-the-ether https://inference-review.com/article/agents-in-the-ether#When:15:09:00Z Imperial Science, Bruce Hunt details how the desire for quick communications from London to Egypt, and then on to India, drove progress in the physical sciences towards a theory of the electromagnetic field.]]> 2022-06-03T15:09:00+00:00 Jeremy Bernstein https://inference-review.com/article/the-kilogram https://inference-review.com/article/the-kilogram#When:14:56:00Z 2022-06-03T14:56:00+00:00 Daniel Jassby https://inference-review.com/article/the-quest-for-fusion-energy https://inference-review.com/article/the-quest-for-fusion-energy#When:12:57:00Z 2022-05-25T12:57:00+00:00 Stanley Deser https://inference-review.com/article/before-before https://inference-review.com/article/before-before#When:12:56:00Z 2022-05-25T12:56:00+00:00 Edmund Richardson https://inference-review.com/article/the-riddle-of-the-mountain https://inference-review.com/article/the-riddle-of-the-mountain#When:12:00:00Z 2022-05-04T12:00:00+00:00 Walter Tschinkel https://inference-review.com/article/memories-of-e-o-wilson https://inference-review.com/article/memories-of-e-o-wilson#When:14:14:00Z 2022-04-18T14:14:00+00:00 Raghavendra Gadagkar https://inference-review.com/article/parallel-histories https://inference-review.com/article/parallel-histories#When:12:41:00Z A Tale of Two Viruses, Neeraja Sankaran traces the parallel histories of two groups of viruses: bacteriophages, which infect bacteria, and sarcoma agents, which cause cancer. Research into these two distinct groups proved to radically reshape what scientists thought they knew, and lay the foundations for our current understanding of viruses.]]> 2022-04-07T12:41:00+00:00 Subir Sarkar https://inference-review.com/article/heart-of-darkness https://inference-review.com/article/heart-of-darkness#When:12:31:00Z 2022-03-30T12:31:00+00:00 Lawrence Rosen https://inference-review.com/article/anarchaeology https://inference-review.com/article/anarchaeology#When:12:17:00Z The Dawn of Everything, speculative archaeology meets a personal advocacy of anarchy. The result is “a new history of humanity”—anarchaeology. The exercise merely proves that humans will always seek, in our rage for meaning, to reassemble the scattered remnants of our past into a story. In the process, we will project an image of ourselves that speaks to our current needs.]]> 2022-03-23T12:17:00+00:00 Bernard Carr https://inference-review.com/article/underselling-hawking https://inference-review.com/article/underselling-hawking#When:14:53:00Z Hawking Hawking, a biography portraying Hawking as a second-rate physicist who manipulated media for his own fame. Hawking’s student Bernard Carr shares his counter-perspective.]]> 2022-03-07T14:53:00+00:00 Armand Marie Leroi https://inference-review.com/article/the-nature-of-art https://inference-review.com/article/the-nature-of-art#When:14:50:00Z 2022-03-07T14:50:00+00:00 Yuri Deigin https://inference-review.com/article/thunder-out-of-china https://inference-review.com/article/thunder-out-of-china#When:14:03:00Z 2022-02-07T14:03:00+00:00 Charles Lineweaver https://inference-review.com/article/a-lonely-universe https://inference-review.com/article/a-lonely-universe#When:01:26:00Z 2022-02-02T01:26:00+00:00 Stanley Deser https://inference-review.com/article/old-age-and-creativity https://inference-review.com/article/old-age-and-creativity#When:15:41:00Z 2022-01-20T15:41:00+00:00 Tony Liss and Parameswaran Nair https://inference-review.com/article/in-memoriam-myriam-sarachik https://inference-review.com/article/in-memoriam-myriam-sarachik#When:16:54:00Z 2022-01-11T16:54:00+00:00 James Tour https://inference-review.com/article/much-ado-about-nothing https://inference-review.com/article/much-ado-about-nothing#When:13:51:00Z 2022-01-04T13:51:00+00:00 Guy Middleton https://inference-review.com/article/americans-at-armageddon https://inference-review.com/article/americans-at-armageddon#When:13:50:00Z Digging Up Armageddon tells the story of an archeological team from the University of Chicago that began digging at Megiddo in the mid-1920s. Drawing upon an assemblage of diaries, letters, cablegrams, and other archival sources, Cline provides an authoritative guide to the Chicago project during the interwar years, its internal politics, and its fascinating cast of characters.]]> 2022-01-04T13:50:00+00:00 The Editors https://inference-review.com/article/a-christmas-chrestomathy https://inference-review.com/article/a-christmas-chrestomathy#When:07:17:00Z 2021-12-23T07:17:00+00:00 Frank Wilczek https://inference-review.com/article/quanta-of-the-third-kind https://inference-review.com/article/quanta-of-the-third-kind#When:14:30:00Z 2021-11-17T14:30:00+00:00 John Hewitt https://inference-review.com/article/outsmarting-the-virus https://inference-review.com/article/outsmarting-the-virus#When:13:08:00Z 2021-11-08T13:08:00+00:00 Robert Socolow https://inference-review.com/article/a-physicists-journey https://inference-review.com/article/a-physicists-journey#When:15:22:00Z 2021-10-22T15:22:00+00:00 Jochen Böhler https://inference-review.com/article/states-of-war https://inference-review.com/article/states-of-war#When:15:21:00Z 2021-10-22T15:21:00+00:00 Tetsuro Matsuzawa https://inference-review.com/article/primate-memory https://inference-review.com/article/primate-memory#When:13:20:00Z 2021-10-11T13:20:00+00:00 Eduardo de Rafael https://inference-review.com/article/muons-and-new-physics https://inference-review.com/article/muons-and-new-physics#When:13:15:00Z 2021-10-11T13:15:00+00:00 Graham Priest https://inference-review.com/article/loebs-theorem-and-currys-paradox https://inference-review.com/article/loebs-theorem-and-currys-paradox#When:09:31:00Z 2021-09-23T09:31:00+00:00 Paul Sutter https://inference-review.com/article/interstellar-overdrive https://inference-review.com/article/interstellar-overdrive#When:09:30:00Z Extraterrestrial attempts to make the case not only for ‘Oumuamua as a lightsail spacecraft created by extraterrestrial intelligence, but also for the notion of extraterrestrial intelligence itself.]]> 2021-09-23T09:30:00+00:00 Patrick Forterre https://inference-review.com/article/giant-viruses-and-the-tree-of-life https://inference-review.com/article/giant-viruses-and-the-tree-of-life#When:15:47:00Z 2021-09-08T15:47:00+00:00 Isaac Silvera and Ranga Dias https://inference-review.com/article/metallic-hydrogen https://inference-review.com/article/metallic-hydrogen#When:15:46:00Z 2021-09-08T15:46:00+00:00