I once saw a social media post making fun of people opposed to Critical Race Theory (CRT). It read, “I don’t know what Critical Race Theory is, but I’m against it.” The truth of the matter is that CRT ...

Stephen Wolfram blames himself for not changing the face of physics sooner. At its heart, Wolfram’s new approach is a computational picture of the cosmos—one where the fundamental rules that the ...

Theory of mind[1] is not like a theory of quantum mechanics or a theory of evolution. Theory of mind describes the fact that we cannot see someone else’s mind, so we have to guess, to theorize, what ...

Thomas Hertog is professor of theoretical physics at KU Leuven (Belgium). The late physicist Stephen Hawking first asked me to work with him to develop “a new quantum theory of the Big Bang” in 1998.

String theory began over 50 years ago as a way to understand the strong nuclear force. Since then, it’s grown to become a theory of everything, capable of explaining the nature of every particle, ...

Back when I first watched the 2014 film, The Theory of Everything, besides just thinking it was a good movie, I – like many others, I assume – merely thought of it as “The Stephen Hawking Movie.” And, ...

Ann Coulter, in so many words, thinks that I am responsible for the mass shooting in Buffalo in mid-May. Not me alone. After the shooting, Coulter wrote a column dismissing the idea that Republican ...