How do you create an inquisitive mind? Simply accumulating knowledge isn't good enough, suggest Lei Bao and colleagues (Am. J. Phys. 77, 1118–1123; 2009). Specifically, the teaching and learning of ...
Vox in Excelso' puts the spotlight on the academy's Klingon cadet for a check-in on what's changed—and what hasn't—with one ...
It is much touted that string theory — although offering an excess of solutions, and thereby possible universes — has yet to make a testable prediction. The energy scales involved are so huge that no ...
The mystery of dark matter—unseen, pervasive, and essential in standard cosmology—has loomed over physics for decades. In new research, I explore a different possibility: Rather than postulating new ...