Numbers speak. [Img Src ] Once upon a time, we had problems in the foundations of physics. Then we solved them. That was 40 years ago. T...

I’ll be traveling the next two weeks. First to Cambridge to celebrate Stephen Hawking’s 75th birthday ( which was in January ), then in Tri...

“Hi Bee, One of the often repeated phrases here in Italy by so called “science enthusiasts” is that “science is not democratic”, which to ...

Galaxy pumpkin. Src: The Swell Designer According to physics, the universe and everything in it can be explained by but a handful of equ...

Clockworks. [ Img via dwan1509 ]. High energy physics has phases. I don’t mean phases like matter has – solid, liquid, gaseous and so on...

“Dear Sabine, my names [-------]. I'm an anxiety sufferer of the unknown and have been for 4 years. I've recently came across some...

An oscillator too. Source: Giphy . Tl;dr: Ask me again in ten years. A lot of people asked for my opinion about a paper by Wang, Zhu,...

Tl;dr: Yes, but the testable cases aren’t the most plausible ones. It’s the year 2017, but we still don’t know how space and time get...

Gravitational Waves, Computer simulation. Credits: Henze, NASA Tl;dr: Probably not. Last week I learned from New Scientist that “ Gr...

Here is the third and last of the music videos I produced together with Apostolos Vasilidis and Timo Alho, sponsored by FQXi . The first two...

Is the black hole information loss paradox really a paradox? Tim Maudlin, a philosopher from NYU and occasional reader of this blog, doesn...

I'm in Munich next week, playing with the philosophers. Be good while I'm away, back soon. (Below, the girls, missing a few teeth.) ...

You have all been waiting for this. The first ever song about quantum entanglement, Boltzmann brains, and the multiverse: This is the ...

Pope Francis meets Stephen Hawking. [Photo: Piximus .] My husband is a Roman Catholic, so is his whole family. I’m a heathen. We’re both...

“Any publicity is good publicity” is a reaction I frequently get to my complaints about flaky science coverage. I find this attitude disturb...