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Joshua Sokol

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Exoplanet Puzzle Cracked by Jazz Musicians

By Joshua Sokol
May 10, 2017
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A system of seven Earth-like exoplanets appeared to be unstable. Now their orbits have been rewritten in the music of the spheres.

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A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold

By Joshua Sokol
March 23, 2017
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For decades, researchers believed that violent supernovas forged gold and other heavy elements. But many now argue for a different cosmic quarry.

Elena Aprile in her lab at Columbia University.
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In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter

By Joshua Sokol
December 20, 2016
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Elena Aprile now leads the world’s most sensitive dark-matter search. But before she could build her first detector, she had to make herself out of titanium.

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Strange Dark Galaxy Puzzles Astrophysicists

By Joshua Sokol
September 27, 2016
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The surprising discovery of a massive, Milky Way–size galaxy that is made of 99.99 percent dark matter has astronomers dreaming up new ideas about how galaxies form.

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A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light

By Joshua Sokol
September 1, 2016
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The astrophysicist Tracy Slatyer is searching for faint wisps of dark matter annihilating in the early universe — and perhaps in hiding places closer to home.

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Mining Black Hole Collisions for New Physics

By Joshua Sokol
July 21, 2016
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The physicist Asimina Arvanitaki is thinking up ways to search gravitational wave data for evidence of dark matter particles orbiting black holes.

Inside this chamber, silica spheres probe for hidden extra dimensions, distortions of gravity, and dark-matter particles. | Peter DaSilva for Quanta Magazine
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Tiny Tests Seek the Universe’s Big Mysteries

By Joshua Sokol
May 3, 2016
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The search for exotic new physical phenomena is being led by huge experiments like the Large Hadron Collider. But at the other end of the spectrum lie tabletop experiments — small-scale probes of hidden dimensions, dark matter and dark energy.


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