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Natalie Wolchover

Natalie Wolchover

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Thinking Places

Jason Morgan Recalls Discovering Earth’s Tectonic Plates

By Natalie Wolchover +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
August 28, 2017
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Jason Morgan developed the theory of plate tectonics in 1967 while working among a critical mass of talented geophysicists at Princeton University.

Neil Johnson
Q&A

A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right

By Natalie Wolchover
August 23, 2017
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The rise of new extremist groups has served as both an impetus and test-case for Neil Johnson’s models of terrorism and insurgency.

Joe Polchinsky at the Kavli Institute
Thinking Places

Joe Polchinski’s Restless Pursuit of Quantum Gravity

By Natalie Wolchover +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
August 7, 2017
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The pot-stirring string theorist and quantum gravity theorist never sits still for long.

Illustration: window showing dark matter map
cosmology

Scientists Unveil New Inventory of Universe’s Dark Contents

By Natalie Wolchover
August 3, 2017
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The first major results from the Dark Energy Survey signal the start of a new era of cosmology.

origins of life

First Support for a Physics Theory of Life

By Natalie Wolchover
July 26, 2017
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Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they appear to show how order can arise from nothing.

Eva Silverstein at Stanford University
Thinking Places

Eva Silverstein’s Spirals and Strings

By Natalie Wolchover +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
July 17, 2017
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Daily bike rides, serendipitous interactions and long periods of solo thinking inspire this string cosmologist.

Marjorie Rice
Abstractions blog

Marjorie Rice’s Secret Pentagons

By Natalie Wolchover
July 11, 2017
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A California housewife who in the 1970s discovered four new types of tessellating pentagons is dead at 94.

15 pentagon tessellations
geometry

Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem

By Natalie Wolchover
July 11, 2017
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A French mathematician has completed the classification of all convex pentagons, and therefore all convex polygons, that tile the plane.

Kuiper belt objects, planet nine
Abstractions blog

Planet Nine Is Put on Trial in Absentia

By Natalie Wolchover
June 27, 2017
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Breathless media coverage notwithstanding, the cases for and against a hypothetical Planet Nine in the outskirts of the solar system remain inconclusive.


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