Natural Sciences

The Gaia spacecraft, which was launched in late 2013 by the European Space Agency, is on a mission to chart the heavens in unprecedented detail. By the end of its five-year-long run it will pinpoint the positions of one billion stars in the sky with...

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, discusses math, war, the human brain, the education system, and the Orion Project in an interview with Business Insider. Read more http://ow.ly/mI6i3044d4h.

Tracy Slatyer, physicist and Member (2010-13) in the School of Natural Sciences, is searching for faint wisps of dark matter annihilating in the early universe—and perhaps in hiding places closer to home.

Is there a boundary to our knowledge? Are there fundamental limits to science?

Experts say that human impact on Earth is so profound that the Holocene must give way to an epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution, and domesticated chicken. Martin Rees, Institute Trustee and Member in the School of Natural Sciences on...

Another Earth could be circling the star right next door to us, scientists say. And someday, decades from now, it might even be possible to reach.

A recently discovered ultra-faint dwarf galaxy is sending astronomers clues about the makeup of dark matter in the neighborhood of the Milky Way. It is one more clue that a type of stellar object called massive compact halo objects (MACHOs) are...

Physicists, including Nima-Arkani Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, are confronting their “nightmare scenario.”

Nathan Seiberg, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, discusses supersymmetry, superstring revolutions, holomorphy, and duality.

Lectures by Nima Arkani-Hamed, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Nathan Seiberg, Juan Maldacena, Edward Witten, and Institute Members from the 2016 Strings conference.