Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and physics. To understand Noether ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a ...

The history of carbon markets, since the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, can be read as a fraught tale of booms and busts, accusations of ‘greenwashing’, failed offset projects and ‘stranded’ (i.e. valueless) ...

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell) holds his sliding timer in Sliders Season 1 Episode 1. Syfy.com All five seasons of Sliders — the 1995–2000 Fox and Sci Fi Channel series about a team of accidental ...

In next-generation silicon, AI can interpret system behavior at scale, but only if observability is designed into the fabric ...

This week's UK heatwave caused school closures and disrupted learning, but it also reminded me of one of the most important ...

More than half a century ago, Sir Roger Penrose envisioned a scenario in which energy could be extracted from a black hole ...

The laws of physics that concern heat and work could gain a firmer mathematical footing thanks to “gauge theory”, which ...

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that a rotating mass like the Earth pulls the fabric of space and ...

Underpinning much of modern technology, from smartphones to scanning tunneling microscopes to particle colliders, is Fermi's ...