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In Search of Dark Stars
...understand dark matter and her experiences as a woman in physics. “In my entire career I’ve always been aware of being a woman in physics,” she said. “Every room, every...
The New Science of Evolutionary Forecasting
...physics tells him so. “The whole of physics is about prediction, and we’ve gotten quite good at it,” said Lässig, a physicist at the University of Cologne. “When we know...
A Bold Critic of the Big Bang’s ‘Smoking Gun’
In mid-March, a panel of four astrophysicists working on an experiment to probe the first moments of time held an extraordinary press conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)...
Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality
...only describes simple interactions between matter and electromagnetic fields, according to David Wallace, a philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford in England, and cannot even capture the physics...
The Game Theory of Life
...“More recently, there have been some interesting, and much sounder, ideas, which make a link between fields that are addressing a similar issue: Statistical physics and evolutionary biology both try...
In a Grain, a Glimpse of the Cosmos
...deep inside the mantle or during an outer-space impact. Paul Steinhardt, a professor of physics at Princeton University, with a constructible model of a quasicrystal. A New Mineral Steinhardt, a...
Physicists Prove Surprising Rule of Threes
...to infinite. “It’s a pretty wild idea,” said Randy Hulet, a physics professor at Rice University in Houston. “You get this infinite series of molecules.” Efimov had shown that when...
Inside the Din, Cells Fight Noise With Noise
...least in comparison to human-engineered systems,” Elowitz said. “I was coming from physics, where people devise clever ways to reduce noise and even more clever ways to utilize noise to...
Forging a Qubit to Rule Them All
...qubit. “From a theorist’s perspective, topological quantum computing is the most elegant way of achieving robust quantum computation,” said John Preskill, a professor of theoretical physics and director of the...