Climate Change
An International Institute Will Help Us Manage Climate Change
A collaborative center will help climate scientists build better models for prevention and mitigation
Stories by Sabine Hossenfelder
Climate Change
Seeking Certainty on Climate Change: How Much Is Enough?
Two physicists object to a Scientific American essay calling for an end to one climate report. A science historian counters that the report has done its job
Particle Physics
Is the Standard Model of Physics Now Broken?
The discrepancy between the theoretical prediction and the experimentally determined value of the muon’s magnetic moment has become slightly stronger with a new result from Fermilab...
Policy
The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider
It would cost many billions of dollars, the potential rewards are unclear—and the money could be better spent researching threats such as climate change and emerging viruses
Policy
The Truth about Scientific Models
They don’t necessarily try to predict what will happen—but they can help us understand possible futures
Which Should Come First in Physics: Theory or Experiment? Glad You Asked
Since Newton, the foundations of physics progressed in a virtuous cycle of hypothesis and experiment until the cycle broke 40 years ago. A bigger collider will not solve the problem
Space & Physics
Is Dark Matter Real?
Astrophysicists have piled up observations that are difficult to explain with dark matter. It is time to consider that there may be more to gravity than Einstein taught us
The Sciences
A Theory with No Strings Attached: Can Beautiful Physics Be Wrong? [Excerpt]
A physicist decries the trend of chasing after aesthetically pleasing theories that lack empirical evidence
Particle Physics
Lost in Thought—How Important to Physics Were Einstein’s Imaginings?
Einstein’s thought experiments left a long and somewhat mixed legacy of their own
Engineering
