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Charlie Wood

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Dark Matter Gets a Reprieve in New Analysis

By Charlie Wood
April 29, 2019
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A strange glow coming from the Milky Way’s center was thought to be due to ordinary pulsars. But a new look at a years-old study shows that dark matter might still be responsible.

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World’s Simplest Animal Reveals Hidden Diversity

By Charlie Wood
September 12, 2018
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The first animal genus defined purely by genetic characters represents a new era for the sorting and naming of animals.

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The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

By Charlie Wood
September 6, 2018
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The 19th-century discovery of numbers called “quaternions” gave mathematicians a way to describe rotations in space, forever changing physics and math.

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Black Hole Firewalls Could Be Too Tepid to Burn

By Charlie Wood
August 22, 2018
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String theorists elide a paradox about black holes by extinguishing the walls of fire feared to surround them.

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Abstractions blog

Swarming Bacteria Create an ‘Impossible’ Superfluid

By Charlie Wood
July 26, 2018
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Researchers explore a loophole that extracts useful energy from a fluid’s seemingly random motion. The secret? Sugar and asymmetry.

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Supercharge the Search for New Particles

By Charlie Wood
July 23, 2018
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In the hunt for new fundamental particles, physicists have always had to make assumptions about how the particles will behave. New machine learning algorithms don’t.

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Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine?

By Charlie Wood
July 3, 2018
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Astronomers suspect that there’s a large planet hiding out in the distant fringes of the solar system. At a recent workshop, they brainstormed ways to coax it into view.


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