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A Child’s Puzzle Has Helped Unlock the Secrets of Magnetism
People have known about magnets since ancient times, but the physics of ferromagnetism remains a mystery. Now a familiar puzzle is getting physicists closer to the answer. For a few...
Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn, Driving Around Stanford in a Clunky Jeep
...or out — in clearing a path to inspiration. Four decades ago, Helen Quinn and Roberto Peccei took on one of the great problems in theoretical particle physics: the strong...
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...
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...
The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution
...wrote last year in Journal of Physics A. “The other theories find her somewhat odd, somehow different in nature from the rest, yet everyone comes to her for advice, and...
A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right
...buttoned-up professor of physics at the University of Oxford. Then, a decade ago, he decamped to the University of Miami — a young institution that he sees as unconstrained by...
Star-Swallowing Black Holes Reveal Secrets in Exotic Light Shows
...of astrophysicists proposed a new theoretical model for how TDEs work. The model can explain why different TDEs can appear to behave differently, even though the underlying physics is presumably...
On the Best Use of Science to Safeguard Humanity
...of mathematical physics, whereas I stayed with phenomenology physics. My work had more links to observation. Can you tell us more about why the 1960s were such a remarkable moment...