Articles by

Tom Siegfried

The second law of thermodynamics underlies nearly everything. But is it inviolable?

In real life, laws are broken all the time. Besides your everyday criminals, there are scammers and...

Why large language models aren’t headed toward humanlike understanding

Apart from the northward advance of killer bees in the 1980s, nothing has struck as much fear...

Here are the Top 10 threats to the survival of civilization

Civilizations don’t last forever. Just ask the Aztecs. Or the Maya. Or fans of the original Roman...

Louis Pasteur’s devotion to truth transformed what we know about health and disease

Great scientists become immortalized in various ways. Some through names for obscure units of measurement (à la...