I'm sure you all know what fractals look like, but a few pretty pictures never hurt anyone: Isn't that cool? The key thing about fr...

I had a wide-ranging lunch conversation with my friend Seth a week ago. We touched on many things, but kept circling back to the above ques...

Based partly on the feedback from last column, I'd like to probe a bit deeper into the connection between altruism, evolution, and space...

The Boston University Physics Department hosted a very interesting talk yesterday by Robert Austin of Princeton. Austin has been studying ...

First, a note of personal triumph: I have a paper up on the arXiv ! For those who don't know, the arXiv is a way for researchers to dis...

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Scientific progress is often viewed as an inexorable march toward increasing knowledge. We'll never know everything about the universe,...