Physicists saw a black hole for the first time, debated the expansion rate of the universe, pondered the origin of time and modeled the end of clouds.
How the First Gravitational Waves Were Found
After decades of speculation and searching, a signal came through. It promises to change our understanding of the universe.
Out of Nowhere: The Emergence of Spacetime in Quantum Theories of Gravity
Out of Nowhere is the monograph co-authored by Nick Huggett and Christian Wüthrich, which appeared in 2025 from Oxford University Press. Selected chapters are posted here. (Our publication agreemen…
Requiem for a string: Charting the rise and fall of a theory of everything
String theory was supposed to explain all of physics. What went wrong?
Webb Telescope & The Big Bang - NASA Science
The concept of the Big Bang is both simple and easy to misunderstand. Dr. John Mather, Nobel Laureate and James Webb Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist,
The Public Domain Review (@publicdomainrev.bsky.social)
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Convergence · Gathering open science · Montreal, June 16–18, 2027
Three days in Montreal for the people rethinking how science is created, shared, funded, published, measured, and used. June 16–18, 2027.
When did Computer Science Theory Get so Hard?
I posted on When did Math get so hard? a commenter pointed out that one can also ask When did Computer Science Theory Get so Hard? For t...
What is Dark Energy? Inside Our Accelerating, Expanding Universe - NASA Science
Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with a rapid expansion we call the big bang. After this initial expansion, which lasted a fraction of a
What have we lost now we can no longer read the sky? | Aeon Essays
For most of human history, the stars told us where we were in space and time. Have we forgotten how to look up?
The era of precision cosmology with voids
Cosmic voids, the large underdense regions of our Universe, have emerged over the past decade as powerful cosmological laboratories: their simple dynamics, sensitivity to local gravitational...
How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It
Lee Smolin’s radical idea to reimagine how we view the universe.
Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding
OpenAI shares model results on the Kakeya conjecture, Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics—and how researchers can verify and build on them.
Newfound Mathematical 'Einstein' Shape Creates a Never-Repeating Pattern
A new shape called an einstein has taken the math world by storm. The craggy, hat-shaped tile can cover an infinite plane with patterns that never repeat.
The Year in Math and Computer Science
Mathematicians and computer scientists made big progress in number theory, graph theory, machine learning and quantum computing, even as they reexamined our fundamental understanding of mathematics…
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