“JD Vance’s team had the army corps of engineers take the unusual step of changing the outflow of a lake in Ohio to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday, ⁦The Guardian⁩ has learned.” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

Book review 📚 ‘A biographer’s dream’: this physicist investigated UFOs and flew over Hiroshima go.nature.com/3UPnvxv

New post: Pet Peeves math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpres…

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Origami that could find use for space telescopes, solar arrays and other structures that need to be packed compactly inside a rocket for launch. nytimes.com/2025/08/19/sci…

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My latest: Hollow optical fibers could make the Internet faster, carry more data, and be amenable to the visible-spectrum photons of a future quantum internet nature.com/articles/d4158…

Obituary: Rainer Weiss (1932-2025) Nobel laureate who pioneered the technique that detected gravitational waves go.nature.com/4m46Gu4

My latest nature.com/articles/d4158…

It’s that time of year when everyone in Britain has a cough.

Wolfgang Pauli played a central role in the development of quantum mechanics—partly behind the scenes. But the exclusion principle, which he stated 100 years ago "in the form of the Ten Commandments”, has Pauli's name on it. My Nature Reviews Physics (with gift link) rdcu.be/eJkam

John Martinis’ wife didn’t wake him in the middle of the night (California time) to tell him he had won a Nobel. “I got up a little bit before 6. Then I opened my computer and saw John and Michel’s and my pictures." nature.com/articles/d4158…

Funny because I could have sworn that it was Merkel who made Germany utterly dependent on Russian gas, but maybe I'm misremembering?

Metal-organic frameworks had long been tipped as a Chemistry Nobel candidate — and today it finally happened. My piece with Mira Naddaf nature.com/articles/d4158…

“I actually don’t think Washington has really woken up to just how popular these new energy and electro technologies that China is exporting are.” FT on the "profound" global impact of China's rise as an electrostate ft.com/content/013e8a…

Ever since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform. I've been having a lot of fun animating a mini-series about this topic, and the main part is now out. youtu.be/j0wJBEZdwLs