Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a very good thing Carlo Rovelli did not get eaten by a bear in 1976—though even he admits it would have been his own fault.

It doesn't take a degree in astrophysics or expertise on Albert Einstein to appreciate “White Holes,” theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli's latest book. But brushing up on Dante Alighieri's work might ...

Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre. Riverhead, $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-399-18441-3 This enchanting book from Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist, looks at ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest House & Home news every morning. Carlo Rovelli takes a break from thinking about what might happen inside a black hole, his current ...

When I was a kid, my mother would sneak brussels sprouts on to my plate. I hated those revolting little orbs of bitterness – but Mother was wily. “It’s only a small one,” she’d say, as though ...

From the underrated octopus to Dante, the Italian physicist fuses his deep knowledge of science and the arts We live in a golden age of science writing, where weighty subjects such as quantum ...

Intersections in science and philosophy, religious and political cogitations, literary and poetic examinations - in There are Places in the World Where Rules are Less Important Than Kindness Carlo ...

We do not live in the real world. This is the hard lesson that quantum theory would teach us. It is a theory that, to our way of thinking, makes no sense. Einstein was deeply suspicious of it – as he ...