Natural Sciences

Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings, far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s most accomplished scientists and mathematicians, including Eva Silverstein, former...

Former Member and 2010 Fields Medalist Cédric Villani sat down with Science Magazine's Elisabeth Pain to discuss his involvement in French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist and reformist party, La République En Marche!

Q: What do you hope to...

In an interview with Rebecca Gillan of JPhys+, Stephen L. Adler, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, discusses his paper Coleman–Weinberg symmetry breaking in SU(8) induced by a third rank antisymmetric tensor scalar field II: the...

Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute Director and Leon Levy Professor, discusses the complex relationship between mathematics and physics with Brady Haran of Numberphile during the 2017 National Math Festival in Washington, D.C. Dijkgraaf examines the...

Adrian Hamers and Morgan MacLeod, both current Members in the School of Natural Sciences, have each been awarded inaugural International Astronomical Union prizes. The IAU prize recognizes outstanding scientific achievements in astronomy by Ph.D...

Rashid Sunyaev, Visiting Professor in the School of Natural Sciences and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, has received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology. Sunyaev receives this award jointly...

Much remains uncertain about how black holes reach supermassive girth and influence the universe around them. As such, astronomers want to analyze intermediate-mass black holes of about 100 to 10,000 solar masses that they expect would serve as the...

Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings, far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s most accomplished scientists and mathematicians, including Juan Maldacena, Carl P...

Scientists look around the universe and see amazing structure. There are objects and processes of fantastic complexity. Every action in our universe follows exact laws of nature that are perfectly expressed in a mathematical language. These laws of...

Physicist Paul Halpern honors the life and work of Cécile DeWitt-Morette, former Member in the School of Mathematics/Natural Sciences, who died on May 8 at the age of 94, writing:

Starting with the bombing of her family’s house in World War II that...