IntroductionMilk is more than just a food for babies. Breast milk has evolved to deliver thousands of diverse molecules including growth factors, hormones and...
Nanofluidics could be used to purify water, generate energy and build nanoscale machines. But when water flows through a carbon nanotube, classical fluid mechanics...
IntroductionBirds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. Within assemblies of organisms that seem as though they could get chaotic, order somehow emerges. The collective behaviors...
IntroductionQuantum teleportation isn’t just science fiction; it’s entirely real and happening in laboratories today. But teleporting quantum particles and information is a far cry...
IntroductionElliptic curves are among the more beguiling objects in modern mathematics. They don’t seem complicated, but they form an expressway between the math that...
This year’s International Women’s day theme is ‘Inspire Inclusion’. In this blog I’ll share statistics around women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)...
IntroductionTime seems linear to us: We remember the past, experience the present and predict the future, moving consecutively from one moment to the next....
IntroductionIt is a truth of both physics and everyday experience that things fall apart. Ice melts. Buildings crumble. Any object, if you wait long...
IntroductionIt’s the year 2718. Humanity has invented a warp drive that enables a spacecraft to hyperjump to distant solar systems and back to Earth....
IntroductionWe tend to think of mathematics as purely logical, but the teaching of math, its values, its usefulness and its workings are packed with...
IntroductionIn the early 2000s, it seemed that cosmologists had solved the largest and most complex puzzle of all: how the universe works.
“There was this...
