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Adam Mann

Contributing Writer

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Dendritic ice crystals grow from top to bottom across the frame of a video.
condensed matter physics

Controversy Continues Over Whether Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold

By Adam Mann
June 29, 2022
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Decades after a Tanzanian teenager initiated study of the “Mpemba effect,” the effort to confirm or refute it is leading physicists toward new theories about how substances relax to equilibrium.

Fluorescent purple liquid splashes.
fluid dynamics

An Injection of Chaos Solves Decades-Old Fluid Mystery

By Adam Mann
January 4, 2022
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In the 1960s, drillers noticed that certain fluids would firm up if they flowed too fast. Researchers have finally explained why.

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The Materials Scientist Who Studies the Innards of Exoplanets

By Adam Mann
June 15, 2021
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Federica Coppari uses the world’s most powerful laser to recreate the cores of distant worlds.

Spheres of three different sizes.
Abstractions blog

Debate Erupts Over How ‘Forbidden’ Black Holes Grow

By Adam Mann
November 3, 2020
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Once missing in action, middleweight black holes have finally been detected. Now researchers are trying to figure out how they grow from small ones.

About the author

Adam Mann is a freelance space and physics reporter. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, The New York Times and many other publications. He lives in Oakland, California where he likes riding his bike.
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