Physics Blogs You Need to Be Reading

These are some of the best physics blogs, updated regularly, written by some of the top minds. The feeds are updated on page refresh, so bookmark this page and you’ll have a quick overview of all the blog’s latest entries each time you visit here.

We also asked our community advisors which physics blogs they recommended.

Sean Carroll’s “Preposterous Universe“

• Thanksgiving on Nov 27, 2025
   (Apologies for the ugly blog format. We had a bit of a crash, and are working to get the template back in working order.) This year we give thanks fo...
• George B. Field, 1929-2024 on Aug 5, 2024
  George Field, brilliant theoretical astrophysicist and truly great human being, passed away on the morning of July 31. He was my Ph.D. thesis advisor ...
• New Course: The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mech... on Nov 27, 2023
  In past years I’ve done several courses for The Great Courses/Wondrium (formerly The Teaching Company): Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Mysteries o...

Sabine Hossenfelder’s “Backreaction“

• The Universe Shouldn’t Look Like This on Nov 4, 2026
  Everything in the universe, galaxies included, started out as tiny quantum fluctuations. So why isn’t a galaxy in two places at once? Physicists have ...
• Physics is Unravelling, And It Will Get Worse on Nov 2, 2026
  After mathematics, AI is now coming for physics, writing papers on new particles, dark matter and the fine structure constant. OpenAI claims progress ...
• Schrödinger’s Secret Diaries Have Surfaced. Here’s... on Nov 1, 2026
  A few years ago, headlines around the world called Erwin Schrödinger a paedophile. Universities renamed lecture halls and took his portrait off the wa...

Peter Woit’s “Not Even Wrong“

• New Morning on Nov 4, 2026
  Waking up today to the news that US democracy seems to be on its way to recovery has changed my mood dramatically. All of a sudden I’m an optimi...
• OpenAI Conference at KITP on Nov 2, 2026
  There was a conference held at KITP the week before last entitled Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics. The nature of this conference was somewhat of a m...
• Secret Unified Physics Slop on Oct 27, 2026
  OpenAI has announced a mathematically rigorous existence proof of certain interacting quantum field theories containing gauge fields and fermions in f...

n-Category Café

• Ecological Modeling with Categories on Oct 31, 2026
  There's a job in ecological modeling with categories you can apply for at Topos Research UK.
• Bruce Bartlett Wins Levi Conant Prize on Oct 30, 2026
  Bruce Bartlett has won a prize for expository writing!
• Counting Primes on Oct 24, 2026
  The sign of li(x) - pi(x) changes infinitely many times, according to Littlewood. Can we graph this?

Quantum Diaries

• The forgotten life of Einstein’s wife on Dec 22, 2016
  19 December was the 141th anniversary of the birth of Mileva Marić Einstein. But who remembers this brilliant scientist? While her husband, Albert Ein...
• La vie oubliée de la femme d’Einstein on Dec 22, 2016
  Le 19 décembre a marqué le 141ième anniversaire de naissance de Mileva Marić Einstein. Mais qui se souvient de cette brillante physicienne? Alors que ...
• Latest news from outer space on dark matter on Dec 16, 2016
  To celebrate the first five years of operation on board the International Space Station, Professor Sam Ting, the spokesperson for the Alpha Magnetic S...

Douglas Natelson’s “nanoscale views“

• AI as a teaching tool, brief thoughts in Nov 2026 on Nov 2, 2026
  Leaving aside AI for research at the moment, as anyone with a pulse knows at this point, we are in a period of rapid change in terms of AI tools and s...
• Brief science items, end of October edition on Oct 28, 2026
  Here are a few sciencey things I've been meaning to mention, while real life has been very busy.Density of states for the first two 2D subbandsHe...
• AI for "peer" review on Oct 24, 2026
  I hope to write more about some new papers in the literature soon, as well as providing links to some pretty cool physics-related content.  First...

David Hogg’s “Hogg’s Research“

• number of exposures per visit? on Feb 15, 2026
  I wrote code this weekend to look at the question of how we should visit a star in the upcoming Terra Hunting Experiment. The current (straw-person) p...
• The LLMs, and why do we do astrophysics? on Feb 13, 2026
  Today my rant on LLMs and the practices of our field hit the arXiv. I was scared to post it, because it is such a weird contribution, and it is so rev...
• substellar objects (brown dwarfs) on Nov 21, 2025
  I spent the day at the NSBP / NSHP meeting in San José. My favorite session of the day was the morning astro session, which was entirely about brown d...

Jackson Clarke’s “syymmetries“

• Naturalness: A Pragmatist's Guide on Jun 25, 2017
  1. The long readI've been meaning to write a more comprehensive reflection on naturalness here for a while now, ever since penning a summary i...
• Warsaw Workshop on Non-Standard Dark Matter on Jun 5, 2016
  For the last few days I've been at the Warsaw Workshop on Non-Standard Dark Matter. It's been very enjoyable! Plenty of interesting ideas, c...
• Wrap-up on Apr 24, 2016
  Readers might have noticed that this blog has slowed down lately. The reason is that I am in a transition period at the moment, wherein I hope to: se...

Résonaances

• How large is the W mass anomaly on Apr 19, 2022
  Everything is larger in the US: cars, homes, food portions, people. The CDF collaboration from the now defunct Tevatron collider argues that this phen...
• Why is it when something happens it is ALWAYS you,... on Apr 8, 2021
  April 7, 2021 was like a good TV episode: high-speed action, plot twists, and a cliffhanger ending. We now know that the strength of the little magnet...
• April Fools'21: Trouble with g-2 on Apr 1, 2021
  On April 7, the g-2 experiment at Fermilab was supposed to reveal their new measurement of the magnetic moment of the muon.  *Was*, because ...