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Physics Nobel Honors Early Universe and Exoplanet Discoveries
...in Physics. James Peebles, a physicist at Princeton University, won half of the prize for his contributions to physical cosmology, while Michel Mayor, a physicist at the University of Geneva,...
The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions
...reconnection, tiny physics plays a big role. In particular, it explains why some reconnection events are so stupefyingly fast — and why the strongest seem to occur at a characteristic...
How Physics Found a Geometric Structure for Math to Play With
...decades it has grown from a small collection of insights into a dynamic area of research with deep connections to more areas of math and physics than Hamilton ever could...
Work on Earth’s Climate and Other Complex Systems Earns Nobel Prize in Physics
...This pioneering work on distilling complexity has been honored by today’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Syukuro Manabe, a climatologist at Princeton University, and Klaus Hasselmann, at the Max Planck Institute...
New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder
...hoping to turn the theories into theorems. Among them were Yau and his then-postdoc, Jun Yin. Yin joined Yau’s group in 2008, after finishing a Ph.D. in Princeton University’s physics...
LIGO Architects Win Nobel Prize in Physics
...of the small, it pays to dream big. The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics today for their leading roles...
The Year in Physics
...the muon. They found that the experimental value differs from the predictions of the Standard Model of particle physics by a wide margin, confirming an anomaly first hinted at in...
The Year in Physics
...irreconcilably smaller than the generally accepted number. A flurry of activity followed — hundreds of papers speculating on how the laws of physics would have to be modified to accommodate...
First Support for a Physics Theory of Life
...near volcanic vents in early Earth’s primordial soup (but replicating the conditions that actually gave rise to life is guesswork). Rahul Sarpeshkar, a professor of engineering, physics and microbiology at...