Paul Steinhardt seeks cosmic and crystalline “impossibilities”
From exotic materials to early-universe cosmology, the Princeton physicist thrives when challenging conventional thinking.
Jonathan Oppenheim: Quantum heretic or freethinker?
Prevailing wisdom suggests spacetime must be quantized to achieve physicists’ long-sought unified theory. Jonathan Oppenheim isn’t so sure.
In conversation: Jesse Thaler
A machine learning convert discusses the synergies between AI and physics, and the institute devoted to that fruitful intersection.
Stargazing as a child in India, I glimpsed my quantum future
For Sonali Mohapatra, a career in quantum innovation is rooted in an ever-deepening sense of wonder about the universe.
7 questions with Katie “AstroKatie" Mack
An astrophysicist discusses her approach to figuring out how we fit into the universe – and her amazement about how much we can understand.
The arXivist: Paul Ginsparg on the founding and future of the world’s physics repository
With over 2.5 million submissions over its 33 years, arXiv is the world's largest ongoing experiment in open science.
Andrew Strominger loves string theory but is “ready to be in the real world”
The Harvard physicist is a pioneer of celestial holography, an approach he calls “unflinching” in its rootedness in reality.
Claudia de Rham strives to define – and defy – gravity
Whether puzzling at a blackboard, scuba diving, or piloting a plane, physicist Claudia de Rham feels powerfully pulled to gravity.
5 questions with astrophysicist Roan Haggar
An astrophysicist and science communicator explains how the universe continually blows his mind.
7 questions with physicist (and aspiring flautist) Eduardo Martin-Martinez
Insatiably curious with "antsy pants" about finding answers to deep questions, this physicist is happiest when faced with new challenges.
5 questions with Chris Ferrie
A quantum scientist and author of books for babies on the same subject, Chris Ferrie makes big ideas feel like child's play.
5 questions with cosmologist Luna Zagorac
From dark matter to hieroglyphs, this particle cosmologist tackles puzzles in “radically interdisciplinary ways.”
5 Questions with Ethan Siegel of “Starts With a Bang”
An astrophysicist and science communicator talks about life, the universe, and "the most amazing fact of all."