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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...
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...
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...
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...
Physicists Aim to Classify All Possible Phases of Matter
...sphere and the torus. They’ve also begun to explore the wilderness of phases that can arise near absolute zero in 3-D matter. “It’s not a particular law of physics” that...