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The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions
...reconnection, tiny physics plays a big role. In particular, it explains why some reconnection events are so stupefyingly fast — and why the strongest seem to occur at a characteristic...
How Physics Found a Geometric Structure for Math to Play With
...decades it has grown from a small collection of insights into a dynamic area of research with deep connections to more areas of math and physics than Hamilton ever could...
Work on Earth’s Climate and Other Complex Systems Earns Nobel Prize in Physics
...This pioneering work on distilling complexity has been honored by today’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Syukuro Manabe, a climatologist at Princeton University, and Klaus Hasselmann, at the Max Planck Institute...
LIGO Architects Win Nobel Prize in Physics
...of the small, it pays to dream big. The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics today for their leading roles...
The Year in Physics
...the muon. They found that the experimental value differs from the predictions of the Standard Model of particle physics by a wide margin, confirming an anomaly first hinted at in...
The Year in Physics
...irreconcilably smaller than the generally accepted number. A flurry of activity followed — hundreds of papers speculating on how the laws of physics would have to be modified to accommodate...
First Support for a Physics Theory of Life
...near volcanic vents in early Earth’s primordial soup (but replicating the conditions that actually gave rise to life is guesswork). Rahul Sarpeshkar, a professor of engineering, physics and microbiology at...
The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics
It’s one thing to smash protons together. It’s another to make scientific sense of the debris that’s left behind. This is the situation at CERN, the laboratory that houses the...
The Physics of Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life
...be due to the physics of cold water. A Frozen Paradox “Snowball Earth” was on everyone’s lips when Simpson was an undergraduate in the late 1990s. In 1992, the geochemist...