The Curious Wavefunction

I am a big believer in science as a tool-driven rather than an idea-driven revolution, and nowhere do you see this view of science exemp...

The ribosome is one of the most important and complicated molecular machines ever devised by evolution. Functioning as the factory and a...

That's physicist Albert Michelson, at the University of Chicago in 1894, saying that fundamental physics was essentially finished. In...

First published on 3 Quarks Daily . The Nobel Prizes in science will be announced this week. For more than a century the prizes have re...

I met him at a Starbucks outside the Tower of London. It was pre-arranged. I had told him I was an independent blogger. He told me he pre...

You would think that the Wright brothers’ historic flight from Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903 had little to do with chemistr...