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Smithsonian
June 2005
Richard Panek |
The Year of Albert Einstein His dizzying discoveries in 1905 would forever change our understanding of the universe. Amid all the centennial hoopla, the trick is to separate the man from the math.   |
Reason
March 2007
Kenneth Silber |
No Small Matter Is theoretical physics stuck? And should you worry? Book Review: The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, by Lee Smolin. |
Salon.com
July 6, 2000
Craig Seligman |
"Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain" A journalist and a pathologist take off for California toting the greatest scientific brain of the 20th century as cargo. |
Science News
July 16, 2005 |
From the July 13, 1935, Issue Soundproofing Gives Wall Look of Underground Cave... Professor Albert Einstein Announces a New Theory... Expansion of Universe Sole Explanation of Red Shift... |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Albert Einstein We may love Einstein. But do we really know him? |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Stephen Cass |
Thread-Bare Theories An interview with string-theory critic Lee Smolin about the challenges facing physics. |
Wired
June 2005
Josh McHugh |
Time's Up, Einstein His paper rocked the physics world - and the space-time continuum. Not bad for a college dropout who critics say may not even exist. |
Wired
January 2005
Duff McDonald |
The BlackBerry Brain Trust First Mike Lazaridis reinvented the way we get email. Now he's rounded up a bunch of radical thinkers to reinvent physics itself at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. |
Science News
January 8, 2005 |
From the January 5, 1935, Issue Science Advisory Board Chairman Honored by AAAS... Relativity Theory Framework Strengthened by Einstein... Seek Cancer Control Through Study of Cell Growth... |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
Wesson & Anderson |
The Gravity Probe B Bailout Perhaps the most sophisticated satellite ever flown was nearly doomed by a tiny error, and NASA planned to end the experiment. But with a little creative fund-raising, the project may have bought enough time to prove its worth |
Wired
September 2006
Adam Rogers |
Physics Wars String theory was supposed to reconcile the subatomic world with the vast reaches of spacetime. Now Lee Smolin wants to unravel it. |
Financial Advisor
December 2011
Scott MacKillop |
The Neutrino Factor Even Einstein's theory of relativity may have flaws. That should tell investment managers they should continuously question their own "truths." |
Popular Mechanics
May 30, 2008
Richard Muller |
Physicist: Einstein Would Approve of Moving the Island on Lost How did Ben make the island "disappear" in last night's season finale? It's all relativity, argues a top professor who even uses Lost in his classes. |
Wired
February 2007
Hodgman et al. |
What We Don't Know How did life begin? What's the universe made of? Why do we sleep? 42 of the biggest questions in science... Six mysteries of the universe solved... Smart answers to silly questions... |
Science News
February 15, 2003 |
TimeLine: February 11, 1933 Yellow sodium light effective outdoors... Tuning in on atomic hearts makes their breaking easier... Einstein develops quantum mechanics in latest paper |
Scientific American
April 2006
Jim Holt |
Beyond the Standard Model Book Reviews: Warped Passages: Unraveling The Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall... The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design by Leonard Susskind... etc. |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Michael Scott Moore |
"The Hole in the Universe" by K.C. Cole An engaging new book explores the riddles of space, from string theory to the possibility that the universe is a holographic projection... |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2006
John R. Brandt |
Brandt On Leadership: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? The corporate world has its own theory on relativity, and Albert Einstein has nothing to do with it. |
Science News
January 27, 2001 |
TimeLine: January 24, 1931 Einstein discusses revolution he caused in scientific thought... Women remember pleasant events, men unpleasant... |
Science News
May 14, 2005 |
From the May 11, 1935, Issue Pastime of Kings Revived... New Anti-Aircraft "Ears" Hear "Enemy" 12 Miles Away... Einstein Attacks Quantum Mechanics... |
Science News
May 19, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Cosmic Numerology Imbued with the same conviction of a natural order that drove Pythagoras and his followers to search for an underlying numerical harmony, Johannes Kepler maintained that the physical universe was laid out according to a mathematical design... |
Scientific American
September 2006
George Johnson |
The Inelegant Universe Two new books argue that it is time for string theory to give way: The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin... Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law by Peter Woit... |
Scientific American
November 2006
Michael Shermer |
Wronger Than Wrong The view that all wrong scientific theories are equal implies that no theory is better than any other. |
Chemistry World
February 22, 2015
Matt Gunther |
Einstein was right! In his new book, Einstein was right!, Karl Hess attempts to understand Einstein's motivations for criticizing quantum theory and how, in the end, he was right to do so. |
Science News
May 26, 2001 |
Cosmic Numerology Some history of scientists' attraction to special numbers and mathematic simplicity in physics and astronomy. |
Science News
July 18, 2009
Paul Fendley |
Five Problems In Physics Without The Definite Article Most physicists don't consider a phenomenon to be understood until there are both repeatable experiments displaying it and a quantitative theoretical description. |
Wired
October 23, 2007
Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on Why Science Will Triumph Only When Theory Becomes Law Turns out, the real culture war in science isn't about science at all -- it's about language. And to fight this war, we need to change the way we talk about scientific knowledge. |
Chemistry World
August 13, 2013
Philip Ball |
Making science personal The American Institute of Physics, American Chemical Society and American Medical Association all recommend the active voice and use of pronouns, although they accept the passive voice for methods sections. |
PC World
December 31, 2007
Scott Spanbauer |
Advanced Google: Search Faster, Find More Save time and effort with our favorite search shortcuts. |
Science News
April 6, 2002 |
TimeLine: April 2, 1932 Teletypewriters can now be used in home... Einstein and de Sitter return to Euclidean idea of cosmos... Cannot know universe's shape without more observations... Entire universe still young, little older than earth itself... New long-time clock is rotation of Milky Way... etc. |
Wired
May 22, 2007
Greta Lorge |
The Best Thought Experiments: Schrodinger's Cat, Borel's Monkeys Illustrative stories by famous scientists to illustrate their theoretical concepts. |
Scientific American
October 2008
Michelle Press |
Reviews: Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique Review of The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory and Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique |
Science News
March 31, 2001 |
TimeLine: March 28, 1931 Prince lion-cub speaks a word for himself... Einstein finds past events not knowable with certainty... Physicists now sure vibrations occur in heart of atom... |
Science News
August 6, 2005 |
From the August 3, 1935, issue Zeppelin Models Whirled at 200 Miles Per Hour in Tests... Prof. Bohr Opposes Einstein in Quantum Theory Controversy... |
Wired
Brian Greene |
Questions, Not Answers, Make Science the Ultimate Adventure Science is about immersing ourselves in piercing uncertainty while struggling with the deepest of mysteries. |
Science News
June 28, 1930 |
TimeLine: June 28, 1930 70 Years Ago in Science News: Multiple Ailerons... Space as Sole Carrier of Reality... Planet Pluto... |
Chemistry World
November 18, 2014
Philip Ball |
The quantum moment: how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty This book explores the cultural reception of quantum physics since its earliest days, when Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and others grappled with the bizarre findings of their research, telling them how the world is structured. |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2003 |
Letters New thinking?... Relativity and clocks... New bachelor?... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Robert W. Lucky |
Curiosity Do engineers have more of it than others do? Do you? |
Science News
February 10, 2007 |
Timeline: From the February 6, 1937, issue Real flood cause lay off the Southeast coast... Bending of light may help scientists find remote objects... |
Wired
August 2000 |
GEO 600 laser interferometer It will measure gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity but yet to be observed. These waves - space-time ripples caused by the movement of large cosmic masses like black holes and compact binary stars - will help determine distances across the universe. |
Salon.com
August 3, 2000
Chris Colin |
Trick of the light Scientists broke the speed of light -- or so we were told. Did the press keep us in the dark, or was it the scientists? The details of of how the misleading story broke and general commentary about relations between scientists and the media. |
Chemistry World
September 2008
Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible We are conditioned to look at anything scientific as though we were back at school anticipating an exam, even if we find it between the covers of a novel. In my novel The Sun and Moon Corrupted, I include equations and quotes from Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2011
Ritchie S. King |
The Einstein Telescope Planning a bigger, badder gravitational-wave detector |
Science News
June 8, 2002 |
From the June 3, 1932, issue Generator Load Divided For Better Operation... Einstein Extends Theory to Electron And Proton Interior... New Evidence to Show That Nerves Secrete Hormones... |
Scientific American
July 2009 |
Readers Respond on "The Power of Renewables" Also: letters to the editor on tuberculosis, special relativity and the Conqueror Worm? |
Science News
November 19, 2005 |
From the November 16, 1935, issue Bears in Yellowstone head into hibernation... New method makes aluminum plating on steel possible... Einstein's relativity theory to be tested in sun's eclipse... |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Mark Anderson |
String Theory Made Easy Two books tackle one of the most complex theories known to man with surprisingly satisfactory results |
Wired
March 2007
Isaacson et al. |
The World Needs More Rebels Like Einstein How nonconformity, not rote learning, unlocked his genius... How to ditch digital rights media (DRM)... A head for numbers... The best Google maps mashups... Miracle Gro plant food... Faking it like a man... Organs for sale... etc. |
Wired
August 2003
Michio Kaku |
A User's Guide to Time Travel All it takes is a grasp of theoretical physics, control of the space-time continuum, and maybe a ball of cosmic string. |
