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A Close Look at Newborn Planets Reveals Hints of Infant Moons

By Joshua Sokol
June 11, 2019
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Astronomers have discovered a complex planetary system still swirling into existence.

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Do Brains Operate at a Tipping Point? New Clues and Complications

By Charlie Wood
June 10, 2019
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New experimental results simultaneously advance and challenge the theory that the brain’s network of neurons balances on the knife-edge between two phases.

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Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning

By Natalie Wolchover
June 6, 2019
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A recent challenge to Stephen Hawking’s biggest idea — about how the universe might have come from nothing — has cosmologists choosing sides.

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Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time

By Philip Ball
June 5, 2019
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An experiment caught a quantum system in the middle of a jump — something the originators of quantum mechanics assumed was impossible.

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What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle?

By David H. Freedman
May 28, 2019
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A new theoretical model may help explain the shocking onset of superconductivity in stacked, twisted carbon sheets.

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The Hidden Heroines of Chaos

By Joshua Sokol
May 20, 2019
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Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.

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As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern

By Rebecca Boyle
May 16, 2019
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Astronomers are puzzling over a paucity of planets in the galaxy measuring between 1.5 and two times Earth’s size.

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How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics

By Thomas Lin
May 14, 2019
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In the late 1940s, Richard Feynman invented a visual tool for simplifying particle calculations that forever changed theoretical physics.

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Black, Hot Ice May Be Nature’s Most Common Form of Water

By Joshua Sokol
May 8, 2019
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A new experiment confirms the existence of “superionic ice,” a bizarre form of water that might comprise the bulk of giant icy planets throughout the universe.


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