Science has always felt like an endless frontier, with one mystery leading to another forever. But this episode explores a darker possibility: what if the core rules of reality are finite, and ...

Ten years ago, science journalist John Horgan published a provocative book suggesting that scientists had solved most of the universe's major mysteries. The outcry was loud and immediate. Given the ...

Sean Duffy, the acting administrator of NASA for a little more than a month, has vowed to make the United States great in space. With a background as a US Congressman, reality TV star, and television ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I’ve been reminiscing again about The End of ...

Initially, it was hard to separate truth from rumor, but enough has happened in recent days that the worry cannot be branded as paranoia. A string of events affecting federal agencies and programs, ...

In a new video, “Is Science Dying?”, physicist Sabine Hossenfelder gives my battered old book The End of Science a surprisingly positive review. The irony is that Hossenfelder has inadvertently gotten ...

Science and progress have seemed like synonyms for more than a century. From Newton to the astronauts, from Darwin to the genetic engineers, from Einstein to artificial intelligence, the search for ...

In a nice piece on his Scientific American blog 'Cross-Check', John Horgan recently gave me some much appreciated praise, whilst provoking discussion on a contentious subject - whether or not big ...