Long after the last stars burn out, long after the last black holes evaporate, white dwarfs can still explode in supernova-like blasts. These will be the last explosions — the …
Episode 23 of BookLab is now out! Our featured book is The Feeling of Life Itself by neuroscientist Christof Koch. Koch, who has spent decades studying the neural basis of …
The human mind has long grappled with the nature of time. I contributed the text for this multimedia project — a "timeline of time" — for Quanta magazine, encompassing ideas …
Herbert Spencer, born 200 years ago, was every bit as enamoured with evolution as Darwin was; it was he, not Darwin, who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest." But …
In Until the End of Time, physicist Brian Greene explores a stunning array of human thought, from the big bang to evolution and consciousness. My review for Undark.
I was honoured to be awarded the Fleming Medal for Excellence in Science Communiaction in the fall of 2019. A ceremony was held on Dec. 3 at the University of …
The famed naturalist and his conservative publisher, John Murray III, formed an unlikely alliance in publiscizing a radical idea. This feature for Smithsonian magazine spotlights new research by Canadian scholar …
