Discoveries

Miranda Cheng explains what umbral moonshine is and how it might illuminate string theory.

David Kaplan explains how the law of increasing entropy could drive random bits of matter into the stable, orderly structures of life.

Suchitra Sebastian talks about how extreme conditions can create unexpected quantum behavior.

Ken Ono explains how Ramanujan has served as his “guardian angel” throughout his life and career.

Janna Levin talks about her roles as scientific director at a “center for art and innovation” in Brooklyn and as a physicist and writer.

David Moore explains why we might expect to find strange things when we study gravity at small scales.

David Moore of Stanford University describes how, inside this chamber, silica spheres probe for distortions of gravity.

Donald Hoffman explains how our perceptions have evolved to become like a computer interface.

David Kaplan reports on a potentially exciting new signal at the Large Hadron Collider.