The New York Times's Dennis Overbye writes about the
origins and purpose of Sesame (Synchrotron-light for Experimental
Science and Applications in the Middle East), a project spearheaded
by former Member Eliezer
Rabinovici, a theoretical physicist...
How does science work? . . . The scientific method—famously
objective, logical and eminently reliable; and the fruits of its
success, both pure and applied, are the single most obvious factor
in distinguishing the varying levels of progress between...
In this month's "Quantized Column," Quanta Magazine's
series in which top researchers explore the process of discovery,
Frank Wilczek, Professor
(1989–2000) and Member (1977–78) in the School of Natural Sciences
and Nobel Laureate in Physics (2004)...
An unexpected connection has emerged between the results of
physics experiments and an important, seemingly unrelated set of
numbers in pure mathematics.
“If it were true that there were a group acting on the numbers
coming from physics, that means...
