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Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Help Grow Living Things
...the book as an antidote to what he thought was an excessive tendency to explain everything in terms of Darwinian natural selection. His thesis — that physics, too, shapes us...
Carlo Rovelli’s Radical Perspective on Reality
...a best-selling author of popular science books, including Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, which has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide — placing him in a limelight he’s still...
What Is a Manifold?
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics. Standing in the middle of a...
Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics
...philosopher of physics at Rutgers University. Impossible Values Living in Amsterdam in 1637 at the peak of tulip mania (the Dutch frenzy for flowers which led to impossibly valued tulip...
Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It’s Slowing Down.
The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem. On a radiant...
Old ‘Ghost’ Theory of Quantum Gravity Makes a Comeback
...strange things. But in one corner of the theoretical-physics world, the particle approach is staging a comeback. A growing band of physicists has been using the typical approach to particle...
Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe
Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole universes. What they’re finding has them questioning fundamental assumptions about how physics ought to...
Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider
...place but are very capable of addressing.” This convergence of quantum information theory and particle physics “really is an emergent field,” said Regina Demina, a physicist at the University of...
What Are Lie Groups?
...are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics, and they’ve made lasting contributions to number theory and chemistry. The key to their success is the way they...