Natural Sciences

“Always when things are dull, something turns up to challenge us and to stop us from settling into a rut. Examples of things which made life difficult are all around us: comet impacts, ice ages, weapons, plagues, nuclear fission, computers, sex, sin...

Philip Perry of Big Think asks, "What's our position in the universe?" Referencing the work of Juan Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, and former Members in the School Daniel Louis Jafferis, Leonard Susskind...

Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, Sanjeev Arora, Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, and five former Members are among those newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Nautilus presents short excerpts from nine of Freeman Dyson’s letters taken from his new book Maker of Patterns, with a focus on his relationship with the physicist Richard Feynman. Dyson and Feynman had both professional and personal bonds: Dyson...

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, spoke with physicist and author Lisa Randall at the New York Public Library on April 10, 2018, about his new book Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters (Liveright...

The history of each branch of science can be divided into three phases. The first phase is exploration, to see what nature is doing. The second phase is precise observation and measurement, to describe nature accurately. The third phase is...

Physicist Brian Keating details the process by which breakthrough scientific results can be reached and announced, then peer reviewed and debunked. Though his team believed they'd proven cosmological inflation, a Nobel Prize-worthy discovery if...

Juna Kollmeier, former Junior Visiting Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, wants to understand the substance of the universe: What forms space structures like galaxies, supermassive black holes, and the intergalactic medium that fills the...

Kai Bird of the New York Times reviews Professor Emeritus Freeman Dyson's Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters (Liveright, 2018), writing:

"He knew Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger and, well, just about anyone worth...

Juan Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, and Member Douglas Stanford will give the public lecture “The Cool Alter-Ego of a Black Hole,” on Friday, May 4, which will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on...