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Mathematician Lauren Williams standing in front of a whiteboard that has mathematics written on it.
combinatorics

A Mathematician’s Unanticipated Journey Through the Physical World

By Kevin Hartnett
December 16, 2020
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Lauren Williams has charted an adventurous mathematical career out of the pieces of a fundamental object called the positive Grassmannian.

Illustration showing orange building blocks outside a doorway that opens onto blue towers made up of similar building blocks.
Quantized Columns

Contemplating the End of Physics

By Robbert Dijkgraaf
November 24, 2020
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Has physics reached the limits of what we can discover — or are the possibilities only just beginning?

Infographic showing the ranges of possible masses of WIMPs, axions, ultralight dark matter, sub-GeV dark matter and primordial black holes, which are five different candidates for dark matter.
Abstractions blog

The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding

By Charlie Wood
November 23, 2020
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Physicists plan to leave no stone unturned, checking whether dark matter tickles different types of detectors, nudges starlight, warms planetary cores or even lodges in rocks.

Illustration of a particle
Hidden Structure

What Is a Particle?

By Natalie Wolchover
November 12, 2020
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It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ conception of a particle changed more than it is changing now.

Hidden Structure

A New Map of All the Particles and Forces

By Natalie Wolchover +2 authors
Samuel Velasco
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
October 22, 2020
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We’ve created a new way to explore the fundamental constituents of the universe.

Hidden Structure

The Hidden Structure of the Universe

By Michael Moyer
October 22, 2020
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Our new series of articles explores the search for fundamental structure at the edge of science.

water molecules, droplets and a wave
Abstractions blog

How Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics

By Charlie Wood
September 17, 2020
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Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years.

An animation of a particle collision
Abstractions blog

The Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes Into View

By Charlie Wood
August 20, 2020
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Physicists have identified an algebraic structure underlying the messy mathematics of particle collisions. Some hope it will lead to a more elegant theory of the natural world.

Animated illustration of a hand emerging from a black hole, while drawing the black hole by connecting dots flashing 0 and 1.
Quantized Columns

Spotting Quantum Black Holes in the Lab

By John Preskill
July 15, 2020
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Can we test speculations about how quantum physics affects black holes and the Big Bang?


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