Naturalness is an old idea; it dates back at least to the 16th century and captures the intuition that a useful explanation shouldn’t rely...

Particle physics. Artist’s impression. Professor Ben Allanach is a particle physicist at Cambridge University. He just wrote an advertis...

Ben Carson, trying to make sense of the multiverse. The idea that we live in a multiverse – an infinite collection of universes from whic...

I have a new paper on the arXiv , which came out of a collaboration with Tobias Mistele and Tom Price. We fed a neural network with data abo...

Today is the official publication date of my book “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray.” There’s an interview with me in the cu...

Here is the other video trailer for my book "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray".  Since I have been asked repeated...

I’ve been told that one now does video trailers for books and so here’s me explaining what led me to write the book.

Science Magazine had my book “Lost in Math” reviewed by Dr. Djuna Lize Croon, a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Physics at Da...

It was June 4th, 2018, when Robbert Dijkgraaf, director of the world-renown Princeton Institute for Advanded Study, announced his breakthrou...

Lara. I had just returned from my trip to Dublin when the door rang and the UPS man dumped two big boxes on our doorstep. My husband has...

The collaboration of a neutrino experiment called MiniBooNe just published their new results: Observation of a Significant Excess of Electr...

Simplicity in photographic art. “Monday Blues Chat” By Erin Photography In my upcoming book “Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Ast...

I know, you have all missed my awesome chord progressions, but do not despair, I have relief for your bored ears. I am finally reasonab...

[Image: Everett Collection] In the years of World War II, National Socialists executed about six million Jews. The events did not have a...

I have a new paper out today and it wouldn’t have happened without this blog. A year ago, I wrote a blogpost declaring that  “academia is ...

Strings. [image: freeimages.com ] “Greetings Dr. Hossenfelder! I am a Princeton physics major who regularly reads your wonderful blo...

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys ’  Club By Eileen Pollack Beacon Press (15 Sep 2015) Eileen Pollack set out to...

I spoke with Iulia Georgescu, who writes for the Nature Physics blog, about my upcoming book “Lost in Math. ” The German version of the bo...