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Finding Dark Energy in the Details

By Natalie Wolchover
September 18, 2014
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The astrophysicist Joshua Frieman seeks to pinpoint the mysterious substance driving the accelerating expansion of the universe.

particle physics

Quark Quartet Fuels Quantum Feud

By Natalie Wolchover
August 27, 2014
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Newly discovered particles are forcing physicists to extend their simple picture of subatomic interactions or replace it with a more nuanced understanding.

theoretical physics

At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale

By Natalie Wolchover
August 18, 2014
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Physicists have begun to explore the idea that mass and length may not be fundamental properties of nature. The hypothesis could help to avoid the conclusion that our world is just a weird bubble in an endlessly foaming multiverse.

Katherine Freese
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In Search of Dark Stars

By Tom Siegfried
July 22, 2014
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Katherine Freese, a physicist who will soon lead the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, reflects on the hunt for dark matter and how dark matter heating may have produced the first stars.

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A Bold Critic of the Big Bang’s ‘Smoking Gun’

By Peter Byrne
July 3, 2014
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The cosmologist David Spergel explains why a widely publicized gravitational-wave discovery could be wrong, and how the “overreaching” study could affect the public’s perception of science.

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Early-Universe Explorer Looks for Answers

By Peter Byrne
July 3, 2014
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Chao-Lin Kuo, who helped design the experiment that claimed to have found evidence of gravitational waves from the Big Bang, isn’t bothered by criticism that cosmic dust may account for his results.

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quantum physics

Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality

By Natalie Wolchover
June 24, 2014
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Surprising oil drop experiments suggest that the quantum world may not be as strange as advertised.

Physics

In a Grain, a Glimpse of the Cosmos

By Natalie Wolchover
June 13, 2014
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When scientists traced a museum rock back to its origins, they uncovered mysteries about the early solar system.

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particle physics

Physicists Prove Surprising Rule of Threes

By Natalie Wolchover
May 27, 2014
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Three groups of experimentalists have independently observed a strange state of matter that forms from three particles of any type and at any scale, from practically infinitesimal to infinite.


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