The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck David Spiegelhalter Pelican (2024) As I sat down to read David Spiegelhalter’s The Art of Uncertainty, much of the world’s ...

"With this, we can detect very tiny changes in both position and momentum at once, beyond the limit of any classical sensor," ...

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

The grandfather paradox is just one of the thorny logical problems that arise with the concept of time travel. But one physicist says he has resolved them. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When she was 10 years old, Rose Yu got a birthday present that would change her life—and, potentially, the way we study physics. Her ...

For all of us concerned about the climate, 2023 was a grim year. One of the biggest uncertainties in predicting future climate change is the impact of clouds. Michael Allen speaks to the physicists ...