McCabism

The concepts of mathematical logic, introduced to explain Godel's theorem , can also be exploited to shed further light on the question ...

Does Godel's incompleteness theorem entail that the physicist's dream of a Theory of Everything (ToE) is impossible? It's a que...

Lee Smolin argues in Physics World against the notion that there exists a multiverse of timeless universes. Smolin believes that the need t...

2:30am. Gordon Brown stared with dour misery at the digital bedside clock. The red digits burned with laser-like intensity in the dark, thir...

Mr Justice Eady is, apparently, a "quietly-spoken, shy and precise figure." He is also the most senior libel court judge in the c...

It seems that enlightened self-interest has worked its magic, and the Formula 1 teams' association (FOTA) have reached a compromise sett...

Biologist Martin Heisenberg writes an article for Nature which purports to address the issue of free will, but ultimately does nothing of t...

Today, between fields of luminous rapeseed, I drove up to Oxford to see Peter Byrne deliver a talk on the life of Hugh Everett III , the in...

Midnight in a subterranean laboratory straddling the Swiss-French border. Father Vaux Vectra is alone at his desk, transfixed by the image o...

You're Jenson Button, and you have a secret. You have a type of knowledge which the Greeks referred to as a techne , a special skill, wh...

The European Space Agency's Planck satellite is due to launch from French Guiana on May 14th. Pending a successful deployment, Planck w...