Browsing: Ingenious

Meet the architectural rebel who champions ancient engineers.

The systems theorist explains what’s wrong with standard models of intelligence.

Talking sex, brains, and commitment with the best-selling scientist of love.

From computational complexity to quantum mechanics.

Creative robots, the Kurzweil fallacy, and what it means to be human.

In his most recent book, Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist, Christof Koch wrote that he has known only one genius: Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule. “In a lifetime of teaching, working and debating with some of the smartest people on the planet, I’ve encountered brilliance and high achievement, but […]

Last week, researchers using the Planck spacecraft to study the skies announced that the polarization of light spotted by the BICEP2 experiment could be entirely explained by dust swirling around the Milky Way. This news was a bucket of cold water on the theories of many cosmologists: It meant that BICEP2 might not have been […]

The physicist on writing, the writer on physics.

The primatologist and neurologist talks turbulence—teens, stress, and the information age.

Cosmic microwaves and crime.