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Strange Metal-like Bonds Discovered in Customized Crystals

By Erika K. Carlson
September 3, 2019
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While studying materials made from DNA-coated nanoparticles, researchers found a new form of this matter: lattices in which smaller particles roam like electrons in metallic bonds.

An illustration of an extra-large black hole.
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A Black Hole So Big It ‘Should Not Exist’

By Natalie Wolchover
August 28, 2019
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Researchers have confirmed rumors of a black hole collision that challenges our ideas about how black holes form.

Nelson, wearing hiking gear, smiles at the camera at the top of a rocky outcrop.
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Ann Nelson Took On the Biggest Problems in Physics

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
August 22, 2019
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The theoretical particle physicist Ann Nelson, who died on August 4 at age 61, was a font of brilliant ideas and a champion of ending discrimination in the field.

Illustration of three black holes on a starry background
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To Make Two Black Holes Collide, Try Three

By Erika K. Carlson
August 15, 2019
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How do black holes merge and make gravitational waves? Maybe with a little help from their friends.

An illustration of the cosmologists Wendy Freedman and Adam Riess debating the expansion rate of the universe at a recent meeting at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California.
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Cosmologists Debate How Fast the Universe Is Expanding

By Natalie Wolchover
August 8, 2019
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New measurements could upend the standard theory of the cosmos that has reigned since the discovery of dark energy 21 years ago.

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A Call for Courage as Physicists Confront Collider Dilemma

By Thomas Lewton
August 7, 2019
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Carlo Rubbia, leader of the bold collider experiment that in 1983 discovered the W and Z bosons, thinks particle physicists should now smash muons together in an innovative “Higgs factory.”

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The Universal Law That Aims Time’s Arrow

By Natalie Wolchover
August 1, 2019
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A new look at a ubiquitous phenomenon has uncovered unexpected fractal behavior that could give us clues about the early universe and the arrow of time.

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Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws

By Charlie Wood
July 31, 2019
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Physicists have found examples of “universality” in a system of confined bubbles. The work could help researchers understand the strange behavior of singularities.

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Physicists Peer Inside a Fireball of Quantum Matter

By Charlie Wood
July 30, 2019
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Experimenters in Germany have glimpsed the kind of strange, non-atomic matter thought to fill the cores of merging neutron stars.


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