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A conversation with the mathematician and Professor Emeritus at Yale University.

“We live in an era where science is important to the decisions we make,” the Harvard physicist points out.

Why the Harvard physicist recently tried her hand at writing a libretto.

The Harvard physicist describes one of her most surprising moments of discovery.

The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland will test some of physicists’ most radical conjectures, from supersymmetry to extra dimensions of space.

Because dark energy doesn’t dilute as the universe expands, it will ultimately speed up that expansion exponentially, turning the cosmos into a giant void.

The Harvard scientist explains the daily work of a particle physicist and what problems lie at the cutting edge of her field.

A conversation with the professor of theoretical physics at Harvard.

The real issue is not whether we can prove that climate change will or will not occur within 30 years. It’s that we don’t really know for sure, but we […]

In energy technology, it’s clear if your invention works or not. Either the device saves energy and people buy it and find out, or it doesn’t.

The reason we haven’t innovated enough in energy technology is because energy used to be cheap.

A process that mimics photosynthesis could create a fuel that provides energy in a convenient form.

“When carbon dioxide is free to emit, we emit it like it ain’t going out of style.”

If we are going to cut carbon emissions by 90 percent from their levels in the 1990s, we’re going to have to make a lot more clean energy than you […]

The interplay between the dead and the living—the miraculous “webbing of nature in which death becomes life and life becomes death…around and around”—not only stands as the basis of our […]

Mammals, including humans, have natural lifespans that have remained about the same through each species’ existence. What are these figures, and why do they vary so greatly across species?

From our tiniest cells performing constant “suicide programs,” to the adaptive measures behind the grand sweep of evolutionary history, death is what truly drives life.

Humans have developed elaborate rituals, institutions and even theories of immortality to lessen the life-long shock that is knowledge of death. What’s behind this primal urge and how does an […]

Our atoms are formed from particles with seemingly infinite lifespans, so why do organisms die? The NYU professor explains the biology of death.

A conversation with the author and professor of biology at New York University.

The International Energy Agency chief economist’s biggest fear: that sharing the world’s primary commodities could spark another global war.

We have to punish the extensive use of fossil fuels and provide incentives for the clean energy technologies.

We have to leave oil before oil leaves us, says Fatih Birol.

Whatever NYC loses to gentrification, the cartoonist argues, it maintains the same vitality it had throughout the whole 20th century.

The role of political cartoonists has largely been usurped by Stewart and Colbert. But what should satirists even target these days?

Comics now are every bit as vibrant as they were in their Depression heyday. And yet for the artists, cartooning still “ain’t a living.”

How did a cartoonist “trying to overthrow the government” end up creating both the sex drama “Carnal Knowledge” and the illustrations for kid-lit classic “The Phantom Tollbooth”?

Forget fancy pens: in his early career, the award-winning cartoonist used sharpened dowels from the local meat market.

Back when MLK Jr. was caricatured as a violent radical and the U.S. was plunging into Vietnam, cartoonist Jules Feiffer vented his anger with an editorial freedom that few publications […]

How the legendary cartoonist got started at the Village Voice, and why his work struck a nerve in a decade when “liberals didn’t understand that they had First Amendment rights.”