A science of exceptions: Christine Wertheim reviews The Birth of Physics by Michel Serres. The Standard Model (of physics) at 50: It has successfully predicted many particles, including the Higgs Boson, and has led to 55 Nobels so far, but there’s plenty it still can’t account for. What is dark matter and why hasn’t anyone found it yet? Tom Siegfried interviews John Donoghue on making sense of many universes. The dirtiest fight in physics is about the universe itself. How the universe got its bounce back: New work resuscitates an old idea that directly challenges the Big Bang theory of cosmic origins. Ryan F. Mandelbaum on how the universe ends. So what are you going to do with that degree? Physics majors get that question, too.
