What if everything we know about dark matter is totally wrong?

A child genius living in poverty, her mother, and the benefactor who became their tormenter.

The allure of invisibility.

On fishing, physics, and life's intangibles.

<p>“Back when his girls were girls, with fluffy pink rugs on their bathroom floor, Burgundy wasn’t much of a second-guesser. He was a richly confident physicist with work at the university. He golfed. They went to the club. Even when there were questions of the girls smoking or skipping school (and there were always questions, wink-wink), Burgundy hadn’t worried about His Girls. They weren’t that kind of a family. And anyway (so lovely were His Girls) if they would have been that kind of family they would have worn it well. Being well-paid, occupied and cohesively married does wonders for a man’s confidence.”</p>

A jeweler from Queens tries to crack the code.

The people behind the search for the “God particle.”

At work with the scientists standing on the precipice of a grand unified theory of the universe. Or failure.

A footnoted inquiry into the physics and metaphysics of tennis.