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Interviews with physicist and chemists about their new books.
The stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and producers of mathematics know well that our work depends heavily …
Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body's buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soa…
Does the universe have a purpose? If it does, how is this connected to the meaningfulness that we seek in our lives? In Why? The Purpose of the Univer…
The inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s major motion picture, Oppenheimer, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography explores the life and times of J. R…
An intimate collection of portraits of internationally renowned scientists and Nobel Prize winners, paired with interviews and personal stories. What …
Barbara M. Sattler's book The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics (Cambridge UP, 2020) examines …
Vincanne Adams's book Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move (Duke UP, 2023) is part of a broader trend in anthropology that…
Geologists in the field climb hills and hang onto craggy outcrops; they put their fingers in sand and scratch, smell, and even taste rocks. Beginning …
Is the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna Levin announces the central theme of this book, which established h…
The science of finding habitable planets beyond our solar system and the prospects for establishing human civilization away from our ever-less-habitab…
Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the sc…
In Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation (University of Chicago Press, 2023), Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, director emeritus at the Max Planck …
If you were to present the feats of modern science to someone from the past, those feats would surely be considered magic. In The Magick of Physics: U…
Stephon Alexander talks about a better way of thinking about the interconnections between music, physics, and creativity and how as someone often seen…
Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. Brian Villmoar…
Our contributors discuss their work in the arts and sciences, which is showcased in the new article collection, Water Is in the Air: Physics, Politics…
Our contributors discuss the connections between science, specifically chemistry, and art, and talk about how materials traditionally identified with …
Scientists discovered that some stars have heartbeats and that some of them can be used to measure the longest distances that exist. This episode was…
We’re hitting up against the very nature of measurement: How can we best describe the world around us, in its infinite complexity, with finite measure…
The detection of gravitational waves in 2015 rocked the science community. In this episode, Chris Gondek spoke with author Harry Collins, whose book G…