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Natalie Wolchover

Natalie Wolchover

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fundamental physics

The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature

By Natalie Wolchover
July 20, 2018
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New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.”

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Abstractions blog

What Is the Sun Made Of and When Will It Die?

By Natalie Wolchover
July 5, 2018
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If and when physicists are able to pin down the metal content of the sun, that number could upend much of what we thought we knew about the evolution and life span of stars.

Illustration of a galaxy simulation.
cosmology

The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It

By Natalie Wolchover
June 12, 2018
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Computer simulations have become so accurate that cosmologists can now use them to study dark matter, supermassive black holes and other mysteries of the real evolving cosmos.

Victoria Meadows in her garden with her cockatoo.
Thinking Places

Victoria Meadows’ Earthly Visions of Alien Life

By Natalie Wolchover +1 authors
Olena Shmahalo
June 5, 2018
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A living, breathing garden in Seattle serves as the perfect backdrop to an astrobiologist’s search for life on faraway planets.

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Abstractions blog

Evidence Found for a New Fundamental Particle

By Natalie Wolchover
June 1, 2018
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An experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago has detected far more electron neutrinos than predicted — a possible harbinger of a revolutionary new elementary particle called the sterile neutrino, though many physicists remain skeptical.

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prime numbers

A Chemist Shines Light on a Surprising Prime Number Pattern

By Natalie Wolchover
May 14, 2018
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When a crystallographer treated prime numbers as a system of particles, the resulting diffraction pattern created a new view of existing conjectures in number theory.

Photo of Large Magellan Cloud rotating clockwise.
Abstractions blog

What Astronomers Are Learning From Gaia’s New Milky Way Map

By Natalie Wolchover
May 8, 2018
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A roundup of some of the most important discoveries gleaned so far from the Gaia space observatory’s new map of the galaxy.

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chaos theory

Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos

By Natalie Wolchover
April 18, 2018
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In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic systems.

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dark matter

Trouble Detected in Infamous Dark Matter Signal

By Natalie Wolchover
April 12, 2018
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Independent scientists have cast serious doubt on a claimed detection of dark matter.


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