The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.
A new idea is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms — and might also explain how human brains learn.
Jason Morgan developed the theory of plate tectonics in 1967 while working among a critical mass of talented geophysicists at Princeton University.
The rise of new extremist groups has served as both an impetus and test-case for Neil Johnson’s models of terrorism and insurgency.
The pot-stirring string theorist and quantum gravity theorist never sits still for long.
The first major results from the Dark Energy Survey signal the start of a new era of cosmology.
Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they appear to show how order can arise from nothing.
Daily bike rides, serendipitous interactions and long periods of solo thinking inspire this string cosmologist.
A California housewife who in the 1970s discovered four new types of tessellating pentagons is dead at 94.