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Distorted galaxies
Abstractions blog

A New Cosmic Tension: The Universe Might Be Too Thin

By Charlie Wood
September 8, 2020
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Cosmologists have concluded that the universe doesn’t appear to clump as much as it should. Could both of cosmology’s big puzzles share a single fix?

An animation of a particle collision
Abstractions blog

The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes Into View

By Charlie Wood
August 20, 2020
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Physicists have identified an algebraic structure underlying the messy mathematics of particle collisions. Some hope it will lead to a more elegant theory of the natural world.

Earth from space.
Abstractions blog

Global Wave Discovery Ends 220-Year Search

By Charlie Wood
August 13, 2020
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An 18th-century physicist first predicted the existence of a chorus of atmospheric waves that swoop around Earth. Scientists have finally found them.

The cyclic universe.
Abstractions blog

Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang

By Charlie Wood
August 4, 2020
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Detailed computer simulations have found that a cosmic contraction can generate features of the universe that we observe today.

Center of the Milky Way
Abstractions blog

An Alternative to Dark Matter Passes Critical Test

By Charlie Wood
July 28, 2020
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Modified gravity theories have never been able to describe the universe’s first light. A new formulation does.

A DNA double helix being struck by a cosmic ray.
Abstractions blog

Cosmic Rays May Explain Life’s Bias for Right-Handed DNA

By Charlie Wood
June 29, 2020
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Cosmic rays may have given right-handed genetic helixes an evolutionary edge at the beginning of life’s history.

Gif of a grid of arrows whose directions flip up and down.
Abstractions blog

The Cartoon Picture of Magnets That Has Transformed Science

By Charlie Wood
June 24, 2020
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One hundred years after it was proposed, the Ising model is used to understand everything from magnets to brains.

Lines representing paths of particles fan out from a point and pass through a series of detectors.
Abstractions blog

Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes

By Charlie Wood
May 26, 2020
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Collider physicists report that several measurements of particles called B mesons deviate from predictions. Alone, each oddity looks like a fluke, but their collective drift is more suggestive.

Three particles moving closer together then farther apart. The region between them appears in green.
Abstractions blog

What Goes On in a Proton? Quark Math Still Conflicts With Experiments.

By Charlie Wood
May 6, 2020
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Two ways of approximating the ultra-complicated math that governs quark particles have recently come into conflict, leaving physicists unsure what their decades-old theory predicts.


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