Amanda Gefter

This is your space

What is online social networking all about and how is it changing our world? Amanda Gefter explores how the phenomenon evolved, how it works and how it is already revolutionising the way people live, socialise and work

Jeremy Rifkin and the third industrial revolution

Before we can save ourselves from climate change we have to embrace a new model of society based on our social, empathic nature

Don't mention the F word

If the universe is shaped like a fractal, it could overturn everything we thought we knew about cosmology. Amanda Gefter enters the fray

Mind-bending mathematics: Why infinity has to go

It is fundamental to mathematics as we know it, but infinity is undermining our attempts to understand the universe

At play in the multiverse

In 1985, David Deutsch turned physics upside down by describing a universal quantum computer, pioneering the field of quantum information science. He explains to Amanda Gefter how this relates to notions of truth and reality in our universe – and even outside it

What does the M in M-theory mean?

Many of the worlds best minds are clueless when it comes to knowing how M theory got its name. Our intrepid reporter solves the mystery

What sort of bang was the big bang

There is trouble with our theory of the universes origins. Could quantum theory be coming to the rescue, asks Amanda Gefter

Reality: Is everything made of numbers?

Dig deep enough into the fabric of reality and you eventually hit a seam of pure mathematics

Nathan Myhrvold: Wacky crazy ideas that could change everything

The former Microsoft technology guru on why he wants to start a cooking revolution, while simultanesouly combating global warming and malaria

What if our leading theory of reality is wrong

Supersymmetry, which solves some of the biggest mysteries in physics, has not yet shown up at the Large Hadron Collider, opening the door to alternative theories