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Have Physicists Discovered a New Boson?

By Jeanette Kazmierczak
June 14, 2016
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A group of little-known Hungarian physicists claim to have found a new fundamental particle. Now other researchers are raising questions about the team’s past work.

Q&A

An Explorer of Quantum Borderlands

By Maggie McKee
June 9, 2016
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Suchitra Sebastian’s searches for quantum anomalies have led to the potential discovery of a new building block of matter.

nuclear physics

Evidence of a ‘Fifth Force’ Faces Scrutiny

By Natalie Wolchover
June 7, 2016
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A lab in Hungary has reported an anomaly that could lead to a physics revolution. But even as excitement builds, closer scrutiny has unearthed a troubling backstory.

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quantum physics

New Support for Alternative Quantum View

By Dan Falk
May 16, 2016
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An experiment claims to have invalidated a decades-old criticism against pilot-wave theory, an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics that eliminates the most baffling features of the subatomic universe.

Q&A

Janna Levin’s Theory of Doing Everything

By Natalie Wolchover
May 5, 2016
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The astrophysicist, conceptual writer and host of standing-room-only scientific soirees at a repurposed factory in Brooklyn sees science as a powerful force in culture.

Inside this chamber, silica spheres probe for hidden extra dimensions, distortions of gravity, and dark-matter particles. | Peter DaSilva for Quanta Magazine
experimental physics

Tiny Tests Seek the Universe’s Big Mysteries

By Joshua Sokol
May 3, 2016
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The search for exotic new physical phenomena is being led by huge experiments like the Large Hadron Collider. But at the other end of the spectrum lie tabletop experiments — small-scale probes of hidden dimensions, dark matter and dark energy.

Quantized Columns

Entanglement Made Simple

By Frank Wilczek
April 28, 2016
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How quantum entanglement connects with the “many worlds” of quantum theory.

cosmology

Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang’s Triangles

By Natalie Wolchover
April 19, 2016
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The story of the universe’s birth — and evidence for string theory — could be found in triangles and myriad other shapes in the sky.

dark matter

Debate Intensifies Over Dark Disk Theory

By Natalie Wolchover
April 12, 2016
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In the new, free-for-all era of dark matter research, the controversial idea that dark matter is concentrated in thin disks is being rescued from scientific oblivion.


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