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Natalie Wolchover

Natalie Wolchover

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Physics

A Fight for the Soul of Science

By Natalie Wolchover
December 16, 2015
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If a theory can’t be tested, is it still science?

complex systems

Nature’s Critical Warning System

By Natalie Wolchover
November 18, 2015
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Scientists are homing in on a warning signal that arises in complex systems like ecological food webs, the brain and the Earth’s climate. Could it help prevent future catastrophes?

Mathematics

Theorists Draw Closer to Perfect Coloring

By Natalie Wolchover
October 20, 2015
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A theorem for coloring a large class of “perfect” mathematical networks could ease the way for a long-sought general coloring proof.

Physics

Visions of Future Physics

By Natalie Wolchover
September 22, 2015
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Nima Arkani-Hamed is championing a campaign to build the world’s largest particle collider, even as he pursues a new vision of the laws of nature.

cryptography

A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption

By Natalie Wolchover
September 8, 2015
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In the drive to safeguard data from future quantum computers, cryptographers have stumbled upon a thin red line between security and efficiency.

Multimedia

Theories of Everything, Mapped

By Natalie Wolchover
August 3, 2015
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Explore the deepest mysteries at the frontier of fundamental physics, and the most promising ideas put forth to solve them.

mathematical physics

Famous Fluid Equations Are Incomplete

By Natalie Wolchover
July 21, 2015
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A 115-year effort to bridge the particle and fluid descriptions of nature has led mathematicians to an unexpected answer.

condensed matter physics

Paradoxical Crystal Baffles Physicists

By Natalie Wolchover
July 2, 2015
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At super-low temperatures, a crystal called samarium hexaboride behaves in an unexplained, imagination-stretching way.

Physics

A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass

By Natalie Wolchover
May 27, 2015
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Three physicists have proposed a new solution to one of the deepest mysteries in particle physics: why the Higgs boson has such a tiny mass.


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