Anil Ananthaswamy

Scientific American

Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning science writer and former staff writer and deputy news editor for the London-based New Scientist magazine. He was the 2019-2020 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow. He has been a guest editor for the science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and organizes and teaches an annual science writing workshop at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru, India. His work has appeared in Quanta, Scientific American, Nature, Nautilus, Matter, The Wall Street Journal and Discover. His book "The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe," (Mariner Books, 2010) was voted book of the year in 2010 by the U.K.'s Physics World.

Articles by: Anil Ananthaswamy

Gravity arises from the distortion of space-time itself.

How heavy is the universe? Conflicting answers hint at new physics.

By Anil Ananthaswamy last updated

Two entirely different ways of "weighing" the cosmos are producing disparate results. The discrepancy could be a sign that physicists will need to revise the standard model of cosmology.

Abstract background, quantum physics, wave function

AI designs quantum physics experiments beyond what any human has conceived

By Anil Ananthaswamy published

Originally built to speed up calculations, a machine-learning system is now making shocking progress at the frontiers of experimental quantum physics

the possibility of life being a simulation is 50/50

Do we live in a simulation? Chances are about 50–50.

By Anil Ananthaswamy published

Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology