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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.

Cora Dvorkin in front of a starry backdrop.
Hidden Structure

The Cosmologist Who Dreams in the Universe’s Dark Threads

By Rebecca Boyle
November 5, 2020
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Cora Dvorkin discovered new possibilities for what dark matter could be. Now she’s devising unorthodox ways to identify it.

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Hidden Structure

The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End

By George Musser
October 29, 2020
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In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information.

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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.

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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.

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Alchemy Arrives in a Burst of Light

By Philip Ball
September 30, 2020
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Researchers have shown how to effectively transform one material into another using a finely shaped laser pulse.

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Physicists Argue That Black Holes From the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter

By Joshua Sokol
September 23, 2020
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It was an old idea of Stephen Hawking’s: Unseen “primordial” black holes might be the hidden dark matter. A new series of studies has shown how the theory can work.

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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.

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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.


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