physics

The term you’re hearing more frequently combines comic-book cinema with quantum mechanics

Jocelyn Bell Burnell co-discovered pulsars—a huge advance for science—but her male supervisor got the Nobel. Watch her speak live—with special guests—on Oct. 25

In this month’s Perimeter Public Lecture, Janna Levin discusses finding music in science, on May 3 at 7 PM ET

Scientists may have proven Einstein’s last unproven theory. Watch Perimeter Institute panel right here at 1pm ET to understand why this changes the game

Rock-star physicist Lee Smolin writes a scientific to-do list for Justin Trudeau

A new book reveals the quarrels between the great scientist and his friend, Erwin Schrödinger, over quantum theory in physics

Our live-stream of tonight’s Perimeter Public Lecture, bringing high science to the masses

When I met Neil Turok to discuss the 15-year-old Jacob Barnett and other developments in modern physics, the director of Perimeter Institute was wearing shorts and a floral shirt. The South African cosmologist had been on vacation — still was, technically. But he plainly missed his Canadian home base. I had asked to meet him in Perimeter’s sunny white-furnished ground-floor bistro. But everyone else was there, so it took us a moment to shake ourselves free. Turok paused to say hello to Raymond Laflamme, who runs Perimeter’s cross-town partner the Institute for Quantum Computing, and John Berlinsky, who runs the Perimeter Scholars International program in which Jacob Barnett is the youngest student.

Neil Turok talks to Paul Wells about the ever-increasing complexity of theoretical physics

A physics video, a lawsuit over a B+ and an unfunny Joker

Why are we here? One of the world’s greatest physicists on the search for answers

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