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A Through-The-Lens Look at the World’s Particle Physics Labs
The winning entries in the 2025 Global Physics Photowalk contest showcase the beauty of toil and discovery. Last summer, a wedding photographer walked begrudgingly into a physics laboratory outside Rome....
Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?
...typical high-energy theorist in a prestigious university physics department still thinks string theory has a good chance of being correct, at least in part. The field has become siloed between...
Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award
...create currency that couldn’t be forged. The scheme was based on the laws of quantum physics — a subject Brassard, a computer scientist, knew nothing about. “I was trapped, so...
Why Do Humanoid Robots Still Struggle With the Small Stuff?
...equations to model the (simplified) physics of the robot. Now they train neural networks to act as “whole-body controllers” by running countless digital simulations of the humanoid. This process teaches...
Where Some See Strings, She Sees a Space-Time Made of Fractals
...significant strides toward showing that the quantum laws likely do stop changing around the Planck scale, just as Weinberg suspected. She has also connected Planck-scale physics with physics at scales...
Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds
...categorized as artificial intelligence. Schneider leans on AI to better incorporate the effects of clouds into climate models that use physics equations to see what’s ahead. Bretherton, worried that these...
A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age
...computer science — physics I just found conceptually interesting, computer science because of my high school interest in video game design. I quickly dropped physics because I was very bad...
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?
...classical physics — Newton’s laws of motion and so on — that operate at the scales of everyday life. Zurek’s key idea about how this transition occurs, called decoherence, is...
Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?
...a new series of essays in Quanta Magazine, I’m taking stock. Is particle physics dying, as Falkowski predicted? Can new physics still be found? What’s the future for particle physicists?...