This Week’s NOVA Next Feature
Physicists often revel in the elegance of their equations, but some think it’s gone too far. NOVA Next contributor Sarah Scoles reports the story.
In other news:
- What happens when you’re no longer the girl next door from “The Wonder Years” ? Math helped Danica McKellar discover that she’s so much more than the child actress who played Winnie Cooper.
- The universe is expanding faster than expected , and we don’t know why.
- Schrödinger’s cat—entangled and sliced in half—could help build better quantum computers .
- Gravitational waves could finally help us prove string theory .
What We’re Reading
- Elon Musk thinks we’re all characters in an advanced civilization’s video game . [Vox]
- Scientists have announced HGP-Write, a project to synthesize the human genome . [The New York Times]
- The F.D.A. is proposing guidelines for salt added to food. [The New York Times]
- Scientists have discovered a gigantic sea sponge in Hawaii . [The Guardian]