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The Materials Scientist Who Studies the Innards of Exoplanets

By Adam Mann
June 15, 2021
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Federica Coppari uses the world’s most powerful laser to recreate the cores of distant worlds.

An illustration showing three stacked sheets of carbon atoms, each offset from the one below by half a lattice spacing.]
condensed matter physics

Graphene Superconductors May Be Less Exotic Than Physicists Hoped

By Charlie Wood
June 14, 2021
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Superconductivity has been discovered in graphene devices without any twists, suggesting the form of superconductivity in the material might be mundane after all.

Math Meets QFT

The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

By Kevin Hartnett
June 10, 2021
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The accelerating effort to understand the mathematics of quantum field theory will have profound consequences for both math and physics.

Quantized Columns

What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?

By Scott Aaronson
June 8, 2021
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To understand what quantum computers can do — and what they can’t — avoid falling for overly simple explanations.

planetary science

Astronomers Find Secret Planet-Making Ingredient: Magnetic Fields

By Robin George Andrews
June 7, 2021
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Scientists have long struggled to understand how common planets form. A new supercomputer simulation shows that the missing ingredient may be magnetism.

A GIF showing increasingly more twists being added to the curves on a sphere.
geometry

Mathematicians Identify Threshold at Which Shapes Give Way

By Mordechai Rorvig
June 3, 2021
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A new proof establishes the boundary at which a shape becomes so corrugated, it can be crushed.

Lava bubbling out of the top of a volcano.
geophysics

A Burp or a Blast? Seismic Signals Reveal the Volcanic Eruption to Come

By Robin George Andrews
June 1, 2021
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Scientists have begun to decipher the subtle signs that reveal how explosive a volcanic eruption is going to be.

A glowing blue sphere in space.
astrophysics

Squishy Neutron Star Setback Dampens Hopes of Exotic Matter

By Jonathan O'Callaghan
May 26, 2021
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Groundbreaking results show that neutron stars of different masses may have the same size — upending astrophysical models.

An animation of a glowing conical beam
astrophysics

Physicists Identify the Engine Powering Black Hole Energy Beams

By Natalie Wolchover
May 20, 2021
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Supermassive black holes emit jets of white-hot plasma that stretch thousands of light-years across the cosmos. For the first time, researchers have identified what’s creating these jets.


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