Natural Sciences

New calculations by Stephen Hawking and former Members in the School of Natural Sciences Malcom Perry and Andrew Strominger suggest that essential properties of whatever falls into these cosmic pits may survive. Read more http://ow.ly/fqf13011cVL.

Edward Witten, Charles Simonyi Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, has been awarded the Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2016 from the World Cultural Council. Witten received this award for his visionary research across physics and...

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, examines The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State by Fang Lizhi, in The New York Review of Books. Lizhi, a Member in the School of Natural...

Stanislas Leibler, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Other elected Members and Visitors include Ian Agol (2015–16), Vladimir Drinfeld (1990, 1997, 1998), Wayne Hu (1995–2000), Igor...

Neta Bahcall, Member (1982–83) in the School of Natural Sciences, discusses the forty-year effort of John Bahcall, Richard Black Professor in the School from 1971 until his death in 2005, to predict the rate of neutrinos from the Sun. Watch the talk...

In Black Hole Blues: And Other Songs From Outer Space the astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin chronicles the ­decades-long development of a machine that could detect gravitational waves—a quest marked by the highest degree of human intelligence...

The story of how and why the universe began is written in the sky. Cosmologists believe that details of the Big Bang are encoded in triangles and other shapes that appear in the distribution of galaxies. Lately, they’ve made significant progress in...

Ars Technica's John Timmer describes a talk given by chemist Russel Hemley as part of Dreams of Earth and Sky, a program held at the Institute on the occassion of Professor Emeritus Freeman Dyson's ninetieth birthday, writing "Hemley focuses on...