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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...
A New Physics Theory of Life
...2014, to reflect that Ilya Prigogine won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, not physics. Jeremy England, a 31-year-old physicist at MIT, thinks he has found the underlying physics driving the...
Could Knots Unravel Mysteries of Fluid Flow?
...offer clues for untangling turbulence — one of the last great unknowns of classical physics — but any order exhibited by the knots was lost in the surrounding chaos. Now,...
Physicists Eye Quantum-Gravity Interface
It starts like a textbook physics experiment, with a ball attached to a spring. If a photon strikes the ball, the impact sets it oscillating very gently. But there’s a...
Search Escalates for Key to Why Matter Exists
...it as Selenium-76. The chemical decay could present a solution to one of the biggest mysteries in physics: why there is something rather than nothing in the universe. Among the...
Our Bodies, Our Data
...in physics and other fields. “In high-energy physics, the data is well-structured and annotated, and the infrastructure has been perfected for years through well-designed and funded collaborations,” said Zola. Biological...