IntroductionClusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies sit at the intersections of giant, crisscrossing filaments of matter that form the tapestry of the cosmos....
IntroductionIn the mid-1980s, like Walkman cassette players and tie-dyed shirts, the buglike silhouette of the Mandelbrot set was everywhere.
Students plastered it to dorm room...
The road to Bose–Einstein condensates and degenerate Fermi gases was paved with ideas that shouldn’t have worked, but did, as Chad Orzel explains in...
NOLA Caye, a Central Business District restaurant popular for its hefty brunch menu, is permanently closing its doors after four years in business. Owners of...
IntroductionAlbert Einstein’s general theory of relativity has been wildly successful at describing how gravity works and how it shapes the large-scale structure of the...
IntroductionWhen Galileo Galilei, a mathematician at the University of Padua, trained a spyglass of his own creation on the sky, he was overwhelmed with...
