Galileo Unbound

The Information Age, just 80 years old, transformed society through digital technology.

Science is an invention, neither natural nor obvious.

The century is now a quarter over.

The golden mean is more than a design principle, it is a fundamental number of nature that helps explain why islands of dynamicastability survive in a sea of chaos.

Schrödinger's cat has been growing fatter over the past 90 years (it was introduced in 1935).

Quantum matrix mechanics was only a few months old when it was challenged by the new quantum wave mechanics of Erwin Schrödinger.

One way to interpret quantum reality is as an infinite array of numbers.

Intuitive notions of parallelism fly out the window in curved worlds.

Special relativity is rarely spoken in the same breath as biology.

The magic of conformal maps transforms "impossible" physics problems into simple algebra exercises.

Anant K.

Education equips us to adapt and thrive in a fast-changing world.

The story of the light ray bending in an accelerating elevator is quintessential Einstein.

Gerardus Mercator warped the world to flatten it.

Attacking research at universities and national laboratories could lead to the collapse of American science and the loss of future GDP.

The displacement current was Maxwell's stroke of genius that led ultimately to the completion of his equations.

A century of neural network science has brought us to the precipice of a new age of artificial intelligence.

Most of the universe may not be what we think it is.

In December 1924, Wolfgang Pauli introduced a crucial quantum number, leading to the formulation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle and connecting atomic models to the periodic table’s structure.

Mines over matter: Neutrinos are the final frontier of high-energy physics.

The ancient Babylonians used a sexagesimal numeral system with innovative multiplication techniques to manage complex calculations for land ownership, allowing them to effectively handle large numbers with fewer memorized values.