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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...
Why Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Puzzle Keeps Puzzling
...who died today at 76, was something of a betting man, regularly entering into friendly wagers with his colleagues over key questions in theoretical physics. “I sensed when Stephen and...
He Seeks Mystery Magnetic Fields With His Quantum Compass
...It’s not an accident. There are several special things about diamonds that make them great for quantum physics. Humans love diamonds because diamonds are transparent and sparkly, which is related...
How Big Can the Quantum World Be? Physicists Probe the Limits.
...as motionless as the laws of physics permit. Two teams of researchers, in Austria and Switzerland, have independently succeeded in freezing such minuscule nanoparticles, just 100 to 140 nanometers across,...
Closed Loophole Confirms the Unreality of the Quantum World
...for anti-realism at the level of the quantum. But in May, Rafael Chaves and colleagues at the International Institute of Physics in Natal, Brazil, found a loophole. They showed that...
How a Biofilm’s Strange Shape Emerges From Cellular Geometry
...this emergence that attracted the biophysicist Peter Yunker to the microbial structures. Trained in soft matter physics — the study of materials that can be structurally altered — he is...