The second law of thermodynamics famously pushes the universe toward disorder. Could there be another, overlooked law of nature at work, leading to increasing order? That’s the bold idea at …
It was an honor to be invited to discuss The Science of Shakespeare at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri, in March. The sell-out crowd asked great questions …
It’s one of the great puzzles in astrophysics: The stars and galaxies that we can see through our best telescopes are only a small fraction of the matter that we …
Astronomers are worried that these satellites—each of them with the potential to be several times brighter than the full moon—will hamper their view of celestial objects. Scientists also They fear …
Anyone glued to their televisions on the night of November 1st—actually the early morning hours of November 2nd—will agree: They don’t come any closer. It was the bottom of the …
AI chatbots have raised all manner of concern in recent months. But University of Toronto psychologist Paul Bloom believes they may have a place in our society — as companions …
A once-a-century solar storm could knock out power and disrupt communications on Earth. How ready are we? Although no geomagnetic storm in the intervening 166 years has matched the fury …
In the time of Galileo and Newton, what we now call “science” was known as “natural philosophy.” These days, science and philosophy have gone their separate ways — but perhaps …
Tech billionaires talk about colonizing Mars, building grand space stations far from Earth, lengthening life spans, and maybe even eradicating aging and death, or uploading our minds into computers. Well, …
Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm the ozone layer. For Lawler, the incident drove …
