There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the next without pause. Albert Einstein does not quite fit that picture. For all ...

Many of us like to think that we’re fairly smart. But it can be a very humbling experience when you’re in the presence of ...

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During Chicago’s notorious winters, this corner of the store becomes particularly popular—a form of literary escape when ...

I’ve been through dozens and dozens of notebooks in my lifetime—starting with my first summer camp journal at age eight, when my deepest thoughts were mostly about friendship drama and our trip day to ...

In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a longstanding, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical physics ...

As commercial interest in quantum technologies accelerates, entrepreneurial minds at the University of Waterloo are not waiting for opportunities—they are creating them. Quantum key distribution (QKD) ...

In the Great Smoky Mountains, an auxiliary team of élite outdoorsmen answers the call when park-goers’ hikes, climbs, and ...

With each new year comes trend predictions, and one of the biggest for 2026 is “the year of analog.” Besides collecting vinyl, using film cameras and exploring new offline hobbies, people are writing ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...