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Dark Energy May Be Incompatible With String Theory
...awoke in Vienna and groggily scrolled through an online repository of newly posted physics papers. One title startled him into full consciousness. The paper, by the prominent string theorist Cumrun...
Joe Polchinski’s Restless Pursuit of Quantum Gravity
...or out — in clearing a path to inspiration. As a young professor at Harvard University in 1997, Juan Maldacena reshaped fundamental physics with the discovery that, as he put...
Our Bodies, Our Data
...in physics and other fields. “In high-energy physics, the data is well-structured and annotated, and the infrastructure has been perfected for years through well-designed and funded collaborations,” said Zola. Biological...
A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
...achievements in math, physics, astronomy and public affairs. H. T. Yau of Harvard University commenced the math section, launching into Dyson’s work on the universality of random matrices. George Andrews...
Quantum Tunnels Show How Particles Can Break the Speed of Light
...traveling through space. In that way it almost seems weirder than entanglement.” In a paper published in the New Journal of Physics in September, Pollak and two colleagues argued that...
New Support for Alternative Quantum View
...is exactly what the standard view of quantum mechanics, often called the Copenhagen interpretation, asks us to believe. Instead of the clear-cut positions and movements of Newtonian physics, we have...
Magnetism May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry
...supporting life. It’s not the only plausible hypothesis, but “it’s one of the coolest because it ties geophysics to geochemistry, to prebiotic chemistry, [and] ultimately to biochemistry,” said Gerald Joyce,...
Mathematicians Tame Rogue Waves, Lighting Up Future of LEDs
...in the middle of the ocean. Anderson won the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of what is now called Anderson localization, a term that refers to waves...
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Graphene Superconductors May Be Less Exotic Than Physicists Hoped
...of 20th-century physics who tried and failed to understand why many metals carry current without resistance at low temperatures. In 1957, nearly half a century after this standard kind of...