The UN Will Give You $15,000 To Help Address Climate Change

This is an opinion piece by Erik Solheim, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. During an extraordinary year in Bern, Switzerland, a young German ...

Five Film Festivals That Should Be On Every Movie Buff's Radar

The Tribeca Film Festival kicked off yesterday (April 19), bringing a smorgasbord of indie films, discussion panels, TV shows, live podcasts, and master classes to Downtown...

Scientists Think The Speed Of Light Has Slowed, And They're Trying To Prove It

In 1905, a 26-year-old Albert Einstein changed physics forever when he outlined his theory of special relativity. This theory outlined the relationship between space and ti...

Meet The Queer Woman Who Proved Einsteins Theory About Gravitational Waves

Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime—almost a century ago. But until recently there was no way to observe them. B...

What Is a Gravitational Wave Detector, and Why Do We Want to Send One to Space?

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime. They’re a prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, but while we’ve seen indirect eviden...

Techno-Visionaries And The Philosopher’s Stone

“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”

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Emmy Noether Revolutionized Mathematics — And Still Faced Sexism All Her Life

Emmy Noether was one of the most brilliant and important mathematicians of the 20th century. She altered the course of modern physics. Einstein called her a genius. Yet tod...