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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...
Decoding the Secrets of Superconductivity
...change how you transport electricity and enable new ways of using electricity,” said Louis Taillefer, a professor of physics at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec. Materials that superconduct under...
Time’s Arrow Traced to Quantum Source
...from their rubble and sunlight would slink back into the sun. “In classical physics, we were struggling,” said Sandu Popescu, a professor of physics at the University of Bristol in...
A Fundamental Theory to Model the Mind
...introduced self-organized criticality in a landmark 1987 paper — one of the most highly cited physics papers of the last 30 years. Bak began to see the stabilizing role of...
A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
...achievements in math, physics, astronomy and public affairs. H. T. Yau of Harvard University commenced the math section, launching into Dyson’s work on the universality of random matrices. George Andrews...
Possible Echo of Big Bang Detected
...provide strong hints that the new physics responsible for inflation may involve grand unification,” said Marc Kamionkowski, a professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, referring to the...