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Inside this chamber, silica spheres probe for hidden extra dimensions, distortions of gravity, and dark-matter particles. | Peter DaSilva for Quanta Magazine
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Tiny Tests Seek the Universe’s Big Mysteries

By Joshua Sokol
May 3, 2016
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The search for exotic new physical phenomena is being led by huge experiments like the Large Hadron Collider. But at the other end of the spectrum lie tabletop experiments — small-scale probes of hidden dimensions, dark matter and dark energy.

cosmology

Physicists Hunt for the Big Bang’s Triangles

By Natalie Wolchover
April 19, 2016
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The story of the universe’s birth — and evidence for string theory — could be found in triangles and myriad other shapes in the sky.

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Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind

By Siobhan Roberts
March 3, 2016
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At 86, Britain’s preeminent mathematical matchmaker is still tackling the big questions and dreaming of a union between the quantum and the gravitational forces.

Q&A

Taming Superconductors With String Theory

By Kevin Hartnett
January 21, 2016
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The physicist Subir Sachdev borrows tools from string theory to understand the puzzling behavior of high-temperature superconductors.

Physics

String Theory Meets Loop Quantum Gravity

By Sabine Hossenfelder
January 12, 2016
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Two leading candidates for a “theory of everything,” long thought to be incompatible, may be two sides of the same coin.

Physics

A Fight for the Soul of Science

By Natalie Wolchover
December 16, 2015
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If a theory can’t be tested, is it still science?

Multimedia

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.

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.

Q&A

Science’s Path From Myth to Multiverse

By Dan Falk
March 17, 2015
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In his latest book, the Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg explores how science made the modern world, and where it might take us from here.


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