physics Archives - The American Scholar

Watcher of the Skies

By Jeremy Bernstein | 03/14/2018 |

A tribute to Stephen Hawking

Second Thoughts

By George Musser | 09/06/2016 |

To manipulate time, we must first understand how it works

The Jazz of Physics

By Stephanie Bastek | 05/03/2016 |

Read an excerpt from Stephon Alexander’s book about the music of the universe

Three Poems

By John Koethe | 09/07/2015 |

The Higgs Boson

By Priscilla Long | 02/20/2013 |

Elusive, long-sought, a defining moment of the 21st century