Must read: Brian Greene on the value of science

06/01/08

We don't need a lot of introduction here: Just read the op-ed piece in today's New York Times by Brian Greene. He tackles the issue of why science is so much more than a subject in school that most people didn't really get into.

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Illustration of a scientist knitting an image of a galaxy

04/25/24

Machine learning and experiment

For more than 20 years in experimental particle physics and astrophysics, machine learning has been accelerating the pace of science, helping scientists tackle problems of greater and greater complexity.

Illustration of someone reading a physics vocabulary booklet

04/18/24

Physics vocabulary: AI edition

Don’t know your convolutional neural networks from your boosted decision trees? Symmetry is here to help.

07/28/16

The deconstructed Standard Model equation

The Standard Model is far more than elementary particles arranged in a table.

Galaxy with question marks hanging from sky with kids grabbing at them

08/23/16

Five facts about the Big Bang

It’s the cornerstone of cosmology, but what is it all about?