Double vision
In college, I loved tales of the history of physics as much as I loved the science itself. A kindly professor encouraged me to carve out a dual career…
David Kaiser recently talked to Physics Today via Zoom about using astrophysics to test Bell’s inequality, why the history of physics pedagogy fascinates him, and research in the time of coronavirus.…
Kenneth Keniston, pictured 2nd from right.
Remembering Kenneth Keniston
1930-2020
The Questions Keniston Brought to MIT
Kenneth Keniston, a founder and pillar of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and…
The Pandemic Is Not a Natural Disaster
The coronavirus isn’t just a public-health crisis. It’s an ecological one.
By Kate Brown
April 13, 2020
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Quantum Conversations, Entanglement, and the American Cold War “Physics Bubble”
By Michael D. Gordin
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
TRAINING TO BECOME a physicist is really hard work. I know because I’m not…
The Steady State: When Astronomers Tried to Overthrow
the Big Bang
Some astronomers didn’t like the religious implications of a universe with a beginning. Their alternative was the so-called “steady state…
By Kate Brown
Nov. 19, 2019
9:59 AM
Nuclear accidents often aren’t surprises. Whistleblowers had warned of the dangers before such disasters occurred in 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukraine, and 25 years…