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The Case for Complex Dark Matter

By Liz Kruesi
August 20, 2015
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The physicist James Bullock explains how a complicated “dark sector” of interacting particles may illuminate some puzzling observations of the centers of galaxies.

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Theories of Everything, Mapped

By Natalie Wolchover
August 3, 2015
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Explore the deepest mysteries at the frontier of fundamental physics, and the most promising ideas put forth to solve them.

mathematical physics

Famous Fluid Equations Are Incomplete

By Natalie Wolchover
July 21, 2015
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A 115-year effort to bridge the particle and fluid descriptions of nature has led mathematicians to an unexpected answer.

complex systems

The New Laws of Explosive Networks

By Jennifer Ouellette
July 14, 2015
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Researchers are uncovering the hidden laws that reveal how the Internet grows, how viruses spread, and how financial bubbles burst.

condensed matter physics

Paradoxical Crystal Baffles Physicists

By Natalie Wolchover
July 2, 2015
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At super-low temperatures, a crystal called samarium hexaboride behaves in an unexplained, imagination-stretching way.

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Why the Big Bang’s Light May Have a Tilt

By Maggie McKee
June 30, 2015
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Scientists haven’t tested the Big Bang’s light for a revealing shift in 25 years. A new experiment aims to change that.

Physics

The Fuzzball Fix for a Black Hole Paradox

By Jennifer Ouellette
June 23, 2015
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By replacing black holes with fuzzballs — dense, star-like objects from string theory — researchers think they can avoid some knotty paradoxes at the edge of physics.

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A Private View of Quantum Reality

By Amanda Gefter
June 4, 2015
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Quantum theorist Christopher Fuchs explains how to solve the paradoxes of quantum mechanics. His price: physics gets personal.

Physics

A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass

By Natalie Wolchover
May 27, 2015
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Three physicists have proposed a new solution to one of the deepest mysteries in particle physics: why the Higgs boson has such a tiny mass.


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