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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...
Betting on the Future of Quantum Gravity
...professor of particle physics at Imperial College London and Bern’s frequent opponent. Each loss has its consolation prize, however. As Bern and his team pull off increasingly sophisticated calculations, the...
Case for Dark Matter Signal Strengthens
...astrophysics, but it’s almost always astrophysics. All of these groups have tried to be very careful, but it is difficult, and nature may surprise us with astrophysics yet again.” Correction:...
A Fluid New Path in Grand Math Challenge
...don’t fully capture the ocean’s physics.) “My mindset has certainly changed,” he said. A central insight of computer science is that, whenever a physical phenomenon is complex enough, it should...
Big Bang Secrets Swirling in a Fluid Universe
...called “effective field theory,” from particle physics and condensed matter physics, fields in which it has been used for decades. By modeling the matter swirling throughout space as a viscous...