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Dendritic ice crystals grow from top to bottom across the frame of a video.
condensed matter physics

Controversy Continues Over Whether Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold

By Adam Mann
June 29, 2022
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Decades after a Tanzanian teenager initiated study of the “Mpemba effect,” the effort to confirm or refute it is leading physicists toward new theories about how substances relax to equilibrium.

An illustration of a spherical universe sitting inside a machine hooked up to wires.
neural networks

How to Make the Universe Think for Us

By Charlie Wood
May 31, 2022
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Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers, arguing that the future of computing lies in exploiting the universe’s complex physical behaviors.

An illustration of calipers that look blurry
quantum physics

Physicists Pin Down How Quantum Uncertainty Sharpens Measurements

By Ben Brubaker
May 3, 2022
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Throwing out data seems to make measurements of distances and angles more precise. The reason why has been traced to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.

Illustration in which the particles of the Standard Model are arranged as sections of a circle, but the W boson is too big and doesn’t fit.]
particle physics

Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics

By Charlie Wood
April 7, 2022
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A new analysis of W bosons suggests these particles are significantly heavier than predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.

Quantized Columns

Beyond the Second Law

By Nicole Yunger Halpern
March 31, 2022
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Thanks to the power of fluctuation relations, physicists are taking the second law of thermodynamics to settings once thought impossible.

A red laser beam enters a glass cube and splits in two; half of the beam continues straight ahead and the other half shoots out of the glass cube at a right angle.
particle physics

A New Tool for Finding Dark Matter Digs Up Nothing

By Thomas Lewton
March 21, 2022
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Physicists are devising clever new ways to exploit the extreme sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors like LIGO. But so far, they’ve seen no signs of exotica.

Four spheres representing a nucleus surrounded by two additional spheres.
atomic physics

An Antimatter Experiment Shows Surprises Near Absolute Zero

By Charlie Wood
March 16, 2022
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An experiment conducted on hybrid matter-antimatter atoms has defied researchers’ expectations.

particle physics

The Mysterious Forces Inside the Nucleus Grow a Little Less Strange

By Charlie Wood
February 14, 2022
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The strong force holds protons and neutrons together, but the theory behind it is largely inscrutable. Two new approaches show how it works.

Fluorescent purple liquid splashes.
fluid dynamics

An Injection of Chaos Solves Decades-Old Fluid Mystery

By Adam Mann
January 4, 2022
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In the 1960s, drillers noticed that certain fluids would firm up if they flowed too fast. Researchers have finally explained why.


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