Stephen Wolfram, inventor of the Wolfram computational language and the Mathematica software, announced that he may have found a path to the holy grail of physics: A fundamental theory of everything.

Science is a uniquely public form of knowledge. What distinguishes it from other forms of knowledge is that scientific hypotheses can be checked by anyone with the will and resources to do so. In ...

Not everyone lays claim to inventing an new way of thinking scientifically about the world. Last year, Stephen Wolfram, who developed the popular technical computing software Mathematica, published a ...