The Curious Wavefunction

Professional provocateur John Horgan bravely took on a room full of skeptics a few days ago when he scolded them for what he thinks are ...

Freeman Dyson has an Op-Ed in the Boston Globe about the ongoing climate change talks in Paris in which he makes a cogent point - that en...

Historian of science Naomi Oreskes who has long since been a campaigner against climate change and science denialists (her book "Mer...

A recent issue of Nature had an interesting article on what seems to be a wholly paradoxical feature of models used in climate scien...

In the tradition of physicists writing for the layman, Robert Laughlin has emerged as a writer who pens unusually insightful and thought...

For me, the most astounding thing about science has always been the almost unimaginably far-reaching and profound influence that the most tr...

Consider a protein-ligand binding model. How easy is it to predict the best and worst binders in terms of affinity? Now, how hard is it to q...

As far as possible I try to avoid writing about the teaching of evolution and opposition to climate change in this country because of their ...

On Wednesday last week the town where I lived got 20 inches of snow in a twenty-four hour period. I got an unexpected, happy, day off work. ...

John Tierney of the NYT weighs in on the hacked emails and accurately nails it I’ve long thought that the biggest danger in climate researc...

The greatest strength of science is that it tries to avoid dogma. Theories, explanations, hypotheses, everything is tentative, true only as...