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Physicists Find a Way to See the ‘Grin’ of Quantum Gravity
...refers to itself as Dartmouth College for historical reasons. This article was reprinted on TheAtlantic.com. Two microdiamonds would be used to test the quantum nature of gravity. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...
Astronomers Trace Radio Burst to Extreme Cosmic Neighborhood
...the Spitler burst had its signal twisted by an intense magnetic field. Video: One of FRB 121102’s radio bursts, converted into audible frequencies. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Andrew Seymour (NAIC, Arecibo)...
Physicists Aim to Classify All Possible Phases of Matter
...in Redmond, Washington, discovered a bizarre 3-D phase of matter with fractal properties. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Quanta Magazine Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Quanta Magazine, adapted from figure by Xiao-Gang Wen Jeremy Mashburn...
Quanta’s Science and Math Crossword Puzzle
...the crossword as a PDF to print or as a *.puz file to play in the Across Lite app. The answers are available here as a PDF. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...
Why Is M-Theory the Leading Candidate for Theory of Everything?
...structure all five consistent versions of string theory (as well as a particle description called supergravity). It looks like each of those theories in different physical regimes. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine...
Earliest Black Hole Gives Rare Glimpse of Ancient Universe
...often going to faraway galaxies or fleeting gamma-ray bursts. “People had almost given up on quasars,” he said. This article was reprinted on Wired.com. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Quanta Magazine...
‘Crazy’ Supernova Looks Like a New Kind of Star Death
...that shell,” Nugent said. This article was reprinted on Wired.com and in Spanish at Investigacionyciencia.es. Photo illustration by Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Quanta Magazine; adapted from Arcavi et al. 2017...
Supercool Protein Imaging Gets the Nobel Prize
...is Dubochet’s first image of viruses in vitrified water, from 1984. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; source: Martin Högborn/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences University of Lausanne; Jörg Meyer; Courtesy of Cambridge...
How the Hidden Higgs Could Reveal Our Universe’s Dark Sector
...the universe.” This article was reprinted on Wired.com and Spektrum.de. Hypothetical “dark” Higgs bosons could travel hundreds of meters before decaying into ordinary particles. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Quanta Magazine...