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Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Help Grow Living Things
...the book as an antidote to what he thought was an excessive tendency to explain everything in terms of Darwinian natural selection. His thesis — that physics, too, shapes us...
The Year in Physics
...that could bring about the next revolution in physics. These researchers have chipped away at the most tantalizing and recalcitrant problem in theoretical physics: Stephen Hawking’s black hole information paradox....
Physics Nobel Awarded for Black Hole Breakthroughs
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of black holes. Black holes have recently come into the light. Last year,...
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 Year in Physics
...100th Birthday Party It in no way reflects my feelings toward Quanta staff writer Charlie Wood that my favorite moment of the year in physics happened when he got seasick...
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...