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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...
Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time
...an internal matter of physics, as one of its relation to philosophy and human knowledge in general.” In other words, there’s a lot riding on the reality (or not) of...
Physicists Peer Inside a Fireball of Quantum Matter
...information,” said Tetyana Galatyuk, one of the 200 members of the HADES collaboration. The experiment, reported this week in Nature Physics, is the first to measure the temperature of quark...
Top Dark Matter Candidate Loses Ground to Tiniest Competitor
...neutron stars. Together these teams may someday cover most of the possible frequencies. A discovery would permanently rewrite the laws of particle physics and cosmology, but today axions remain entirely...
The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks
Studies of the simplest possible clocks have revealed their fundamental limitations — as well as insights into the nature of time itself. In 2013, a masters student in physics named...
Physicists Pin Down How Quantum Uncertainty Sharpens Measurements
...Researchers say that the new understanding forges links between disparate areas of quantum physics and that it could prove useful in experiments that use sensitive photon detectors. The paper is...
A Physicist’s Approach to Biology Brings Ecological Insights
...migrated to biophysics, probing the complicated mechanics of the DNA molecule. He returned to MIT as a postdoc, and this time he pushed beyond the boundaries of conventional biophysics, using...
It Might Be Possible to Detect Gravitons After All
...hypothetical particle thought to carry the force of gravity — is the ultimate physics experiment. Conventional wisdom, however, says it can’t be done. According to one infamous estimate, an Earth-size...
How Quantum Physicists ‘Flipped Time’ (and How They Didn’t)
...computers, and Zeilinger’s work on the phenomenon won him a share of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. For the flippable nature of quantum time, Franke-Arnold said, “it’s very early...