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Is Nature Unnatural?
On an overcast afternoon in late April, physics professors and students crowded into a wood-paneled lecture hall at Columbia University for a talk by Nima Arkani-Hamed, a high-profile theorist visiting...
In Lopsided Map of the Cosmos, a Glimmer of Its Origins
...trying to piece together a cosmic origin story from the grainy shadow of a new clue. Matthew Kleban, an associate professor of physics at New York University, and graduate student...
Signs of a Stranger, Deeper Side to Nature’s Building Blocks
...which is mathematically simple. “These very complicated quantum mechanical collective effects are beautifully captured by black hole physics,” said Hong Liu, an associate professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute...
In the Hunt for Dark Matter, Promises to Keep?
...to another subatomic particle called a neutrino in that it rarely interacts with other matter. With the discovery of the Higgs boson last year, one era of particle physics has...
As Machines Get Smarter, Evidence They Learn Like Us
...for how we learn. “It seemed to me if you want to understand something, you need to be able to build one,” he said. Following the reductionist approach of physics,...
In Pursuit of Quantum Biology With Birgitta Whaley
As an undergraduate at Oxford University in the mid-1970s, K. Birgitta Whaley struggled to choose between chemistry and physics. Now, as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and...
Physicists Close In on ‘Perfect’ Optical Lens
...decade ago, but by achieving it in novel ways, two groups “have made negative refraction a practical reality at optical frequencies,” said Sir John Pendry, a professor of physics at...
In Natural Networks, Strength in Loops
...in leaves and the cortical blood vessels are organized in this way. “We understand the physics of the connections between entities in full, disgusting detail,” Magnasco said of simple circulatory...
The Proof in the Quantum Pudding
...quantum physics, which governs the world of elementary particles such as electrons and photons. Most researchers have no access to D-Wave’s proprietary system, so they can’t simply examine its specifications...