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Natalie Wolchover

Natalie Wolchover

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Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning

By Natalie Wolchover
June 6, 2019
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A recent challenge to Stephen Hawking’s biggest idea — about how the universe might have come from nothing — has cosmologists choosing sides.

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The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined

By Natalie Wolchover
May 1, 2019
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The sun radiates far more high-frequency light than expected, raising questions about unknown features of the sun’s magnetic field and the possibility of even more exotic physics.

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Scientists Discover Exotic New Patterns of Synchronization

By Natalie Wolchover
April 4, 2019
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In a world seemingly filled with chaos, physicists have discovered new forms of synchronization and are learning how to predict and control them.

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The Physics Still Hiding in the Higgs Boson

By Natalie Wolchover
March 4, 2019
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No new particles have been found at the Large Hadron Collider since the Higgs boson in 2012, but physicists say there’s much we can still learn from the Higgs itself.

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A World Without Clouds

By Natalie Wolchover
February 25, 2019
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A state-of-the-art supercomputer simulation indicates that a feedback loop between global warming and cloud loss can push Earth’s climate past a disastrous tipping point in as little as a century.

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How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram

By Natalie Wolchover
February 21, 2019
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Physicists have devised a holographic model of “de Sitter space,” the term for a universe like ours, that could give us new clues about the origin of space and time.

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An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita

By Natalie Wolchover
February 4, 2019
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Priyamvada Natarajan has pioneered the mapping and modeling of the universe’s invisible contents, especially dark matter and supermassive black holes.

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How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code

By Natalie Wolchover
January 3, 2019
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The same codes needed to thwart errors in quantum computers may also give the fabric of space-time its intrinsic robustness.

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2018 in Review

The Year in Physics

By Natalie Wolchover
December 21, 2018
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The field of fundamental physics is experiencing both a period of confusion and an openness to new ideas.


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