Civilizations don’t last forever. sciencenews.org/article/threat…

My list for Science News of the Top 10 Threats to civilization. Fungal zombie apocalypse did not make the top 10. sciencenews.org/article/threat…

“Beh. Scientist Caroline Orr Bueno, one of the few sane voices who offsets Twitter’s threat to civilization with insight & intelligence about misinformation…” Thank you, Tom Siegfried, for the great article on existential risks, and for the kind words! sciencenews.org/article/threat…

My column for Science News on Pythagoras, who believed reality was at its root made of numbers, and who was first to use math for the purpose of explaining the universe. sciencenews.org/article/pythag…

If he were immortal, Pliny would be celebrating his 2,000th birthday this year. Nobody knows his exact date of birth, but we can infer the year 23 CE because his nephew reported how old he was when he died. | Tom Siegfried science.thewire.in/the-sciences/p…

In time for the Super Bowl, my essay in Knowable Magazine on how sports psychology research provides insight into everything from self-confidence to choking. knowablemagazine.org/content/articl…

Excellent discussion by Tom Siegfried of LLM "understanding" and our recent paper on evaluating analogical reasoning with counterfactual tasks: sciencenews.org/article/ai-lar…

🧠 💡 New article on Science News debates #AI with insights from a paper by SFI’s Melanie Mitchell and Martha Lewis. AI’s latest advancements spark questions about true understanding. Check it out 👉 sciencenews.org/article/ai-lar…

Here’s how teams of scientists raced to study the effects of this year’s total solar eclipse. sciencenews.org/article/totali…

Today is the bicentennial of Carnot's book giving birth to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. My Science News essay: sciencenews.org/article/disord…

Read all about it here: sciencenews.org/article/disord…

My essay on the Second Law bicentennial: sciencenews.org/article/disord…

How the laws of physics enable and constrain animal behaviors, my essay for Knowable Magazine knowablemagazine.org/content/articl…

#Science | Animals use physics? Let us count the ways Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how. Tom Siegfried✍️ thewire.in/science/animal…

Did you get the answer? Let us know in the replies. sciencenews.org/article/scienc…

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Excellent article!

String theory fans might like to know that interesting research is still going on, as I summarize for Knowable Magazine based on a new paper in the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. knowablemagazine.org/content/articl…

For the centennial of quantum mechanics, Knowable Magazine relates the history of the electron, with a special appearance by Ben Franklin. knowablemagazine.org/content/articl…

This is my contribution to the International Year of Quantum 2025 . knowablemagazine.org/content/articl…