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Swirling Bacteria Linked to the Physics of Phase Transitions
...student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who was showing the movie at a 2015 physics meeting, highlighted a remarkable observation: As the colony grew more crowded, large groups...
Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?
...and physics to stop deadly heart arrhythmia. (00:21) You may remember the horrifying scene that occurred during a recent pro football game, when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on...
Why Do Matter Particles Come in Threes? A Physics Titan Weighs In.
...know why,” said Heather Logan, a particle physicist at Carleton University. In the 1970s, when physicists first worked out the Standard Model of particle physics — the still-reigning set of...
A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics
...that it’s time to rethink what we want from a theory, said Jeffrey Bub, a philosopher of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park who works on quantum foundations....
Axions Would Solve Another Major Problem in Physics
...— counterclockwise — and not the other, it would inject a plus sign into particle physics equations rather than a minus sign, yielding electrons and electron-like particles instead of their...
The Physics Principle That Inspired Modern AI Art
...physics — lay dormant, until two graduate students made technical breakthroughs that brought the beast to life. DALL·E 2 is such a beast. The key insight that makes DALL·E 2’s...
The Year in Physics
...that could bring about the next revolution in physics. These researchers have chipped away at the most tantalizing and recalcitrant problem in theoretical physics: Stephen Hawking’s black hole information paradox....
Physics Nobel Awarded for Black Hole Breakthroughs
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of black holes. Black holes have recently come into the light. Last year,...
Physics Nobel Honors Early Universe and Exoplanet Discoveries
...in Physics. James Peebles, a physicist at Princeton University, won half of the prize for his contributions to physical cosmology, while Michel Mayor, a physicist at the University of Geneva,...