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Top Dark Matter Candidate Loses Ground to Tiniest Competitor

By Charlie Wood
November 27, 2019
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Physicists have long searched for hypothesized dark matter particles called WIMPs. Now, focus may be shifting to the axion — an ultra-lightweight particle whose existence would solve two mysteries at once.

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Abstractions blog

Physicists Finally Nail the Proton’s Size, and Hope Dies

By Natalie Wolchover
September 11, 2019
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A new measurement appears to have eliminated an anomaly that had captivated physicists for nearly a decade.

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Abstractions blog

Strange Metal-like Bonds Discovered in Customized Crystals

By Erika K. Carlson
September 3, 2019
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While studying materials made from DNA-coated nanoparticles, researchers found a new form of this matter: lattices in which smaller particles roam like electrons in metallic bonds.

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A Call for Courage as Physicists Confront Collider Dilemma

By Thomas Lewton
August 7, 2019
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Carlo Rubbia, leader of the bold collider experiment that in 1983 discovered the W and Z bosons, thinks particle physicists should now smash muons together in an innovative “Higgs factory.”

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Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws

By Charlie Wood
July 31, 2019
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Physicists have found examples of “universality” in a system of confined bubbles. The work could help researchers understand the strange behavior of singularities.

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Physicists Peer Inside a Fireball of Quantum Matter

By Charlie Wood
July 30, 2019
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Experimenters in Germany have glimpsed the kind of strange, non-atomic matter thought to fill the cores of merging neutron stars.

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Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests

By Philip Ball
July 22, 2019
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Three experiments have vetted quantum Darwinism, a theory that explains how quantum possibilities can give rise to objective, classical reality.

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Philosophers Debate New ‘Sonic Black Hole’ Discovery

By Natalie Wolchover
June 25, 2019
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Opinions differ about what recent measurements of a sound-trapping fluid reveal about light-trapping black holes.

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Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time

By Philip Ball
June 5, 2019
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An experiment caught a quantum system in the middle of a jump — something the originators of quantum mechanics assumed was impossible.


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