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Dark Energy Tested on a Tabletop
...Germany. “It’s quite different from other kinds of tests we are used to for dark energy.” She led a team that recently compared the predictions of various models of dark...
A Digital Copy of the Universe, Encrypted
...on the recent paper detailing the contest, easing his switch from the field of particle physics to astrophysics. Also, with the prize money, “we bought a top of the line...
Our Bodies, Our Data
...individual’s fingertips, scientists can match that individual with the correct keyboard with 95 percent accuracy. “Until recently, we had no idea how diverse the microbiome was, or how stable within...
A New Physics Theory of Life
...a more general phenomenon.” His idea, detailed in a recent paper and further elaborated in a talk he is delivering at universities around the world, has sparked controversy among his...
A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
...said he “thought it would be a little extreme to reminisce with Freeman about a paper that was just published.” Instead, he described his own recent result on safer “adaptive”...
A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos
...around that is the hallmark of chaos. Lyubich had recently completed his analysis of the logistic equation when he traveled to IMPA in 1998. While there, he met Avila and...
A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces
...and writing fiction than doing mathematics. And one of Mirzakhani’s more recent contributions — a monumental collaboration with Eskin about the dynamics of abstract surfaces connected to billiard tables —...
In a Multiverse, What Are the Odds?
...could not arise. Thus, a universe with much heavier Higgs particles could never be observed. Until recently, the leading explanation for the smallness of the Higgs mass was a theory...
Hope Rekindled for Perplexing Proof
...kinds of questions.” This article was reprinted on Wired.com. Three years ago, a solitary mathematician released an impenetrable proof of the famous abc conjecture. At a recent conference dedicated to...