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theoretical physics

Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’

By Natalie Wolchover
February 23, 2017
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A decades-old method called the “bootstrap” is enabling new discoveries about the geometry underlying all quantum theories.

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quantum physics

Experiment Reaffirms Quantum Weirdness

By Natalie Wolchover
February 7, 2017
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Physicists are closing the door on an intriguing loophole around the quantum phenomenon Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.”

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information theory

How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder

By Philip Ball
January 26, 2017
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Life was long thought to obey its own set of rules. But as simple systems show signs of lifelike behavior, scientists are arguing about whether this apparent complexity is all a consequence of thermodynamics.

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Abstractions blog

Droplets That ‘Come to Life’

By Natalie Wolchover
January 20, 2017
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Life might have originated in droplets that behave surprisingly like living cells.

Illustration: Dividing Droplets
biophysics

Dividing Droplets Could Explain Life’s Origin

By Natalie Wolchover
January 19, 2017
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Researchers have discovered that simple “chemically active” droplets grow to the size of cells and spontaneously divide, suggesting they might have evolved into the first living cells.

Abstractions blog

On the Moon’s Far Side, Clues to a Cataclysm?

By Jeanette Kazmierczak
December 22, 2016
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A mission to collect samples from the far side of the moon could answer questions about a barrage of asteroids nearly 4 billion years ago.

Earth scientists hope that their growing knowledge of the planet’s early history will shed light on poorly understood features seen today, from continents to geysers.
geophysics

Explorers Find Passage to Earth’s Dark Age

By Natalie Wolchover
December 22, 2016
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Geochemical signals from deep inside Earth are beginning to shed light on the planet’s first 50 million years, a formative period long viewed as inaccessible to science.

Elena Aprile in her lab at Columbia University.
Q&A

In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter

By Joshua Sokol
December 20, 2016
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Elena Aprile now leads the world’s most sensitive dark-matter search. But before she could build her first detector, she had to make herself out of titanium.

particle physics

Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay

By Natalie Wolchover
December 15, 2016
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Physicists have failed to find disintegrating protons, throwing into limbo the beloved theory that the forces of nature were unified at the beginning of time.


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