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“

• You probably misunderstand the double slit experim... on Jul 20, 2026
  In today's video I talk about some commonly misunderstood points in the double slit experiment.
• Academia's Dirty Secret Is Going to Court on Jul 19, 2026
  A federal judge in the US has allowed a whistleblower lawsuit to go forward, in which a former official of the National Institutes of Health accuses a...
• Scientists Have Figured Out How to Make Antigravit... on Jul 17, 2026
  In Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity is always attractive. But according to a new paper, quantum mechanics offers a loophole that ...

Peter Woit’s “Not Even Wrong“

• Various and Sundry on Jul 15, 2026
  Some things that might be of interest: The ICM is starting next week in Philadelphia. One traditional aspect of the ICM is the announcement of the Fie...
• Notes on Wick Rotation and Chiral Field Theories on Jul 9, 2026
  A few months ago I decided to try and sort out the two dimensional spacetime case of the Wick rotation issues that have been bothering me for years no...
• Complexifying the Complex on Jun 11, 2026
  I’ve been working recently on trying to understand exactly how Wick rotation works in two-dimensional conformal field theory. There is an analog...

n-Category Café

• Octonions and the Standard Model (Part 15) on Jul 18, 2026
  John Baez, Endre Bokor and Latham Boyle have a new paper which gets at the Standard Model gauge group and its representation on one generation of ferm...
• Octonions and the Standard Model (Part 14) on Jun 13, 2026
  A new characterization of the Standard Model gauge group as the group of symmetries of an octonionic qutrit that restrict to act as unitary operators ...
• A New Blog on Jun 2, 2026
  Readers may have noticed that I haven't been very active here for a while. That isn't because I haven't felt the "blogging urge&qu...

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“

• A brief serious note about mental health and well-... on Jul 24, 2026
  I've been blogging for 21 years now (!!), and over that time I've had a wide variety of comments on here, but there have been a couple of an...
• A few optics/metamaterials highlights from META 20... on Jul 18, 2026
  This past week I attended META 2026, the 16th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, at Trinity College, Du...
• Bad to worse at NSF? (July 2026 edition) on Jul 14, 2026
  When I wrote this post last month, I really did not want it to be first in a series.The inciting incident to write that post was a news article in Sci...

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 ...