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Scientists Unravel How the Tonga Volcano Caused Worldwide Tsunamis
...hours after the volcano’s explosive zenith. “All of the mechanics and physics are quite similar,” said Eric Anderson, a researcher at the Colorado School of Mines who studies interactions between...
Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics
A new analysis of W bosons suggests these particles are significantly heavier than predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. Physicists have found that an elementary particle called the...
Beyond the Second Law
...law of thermodynamics has reigned over physics, chemistry, engineering and biology. Now, an upgrade is underway. Thermodynamics — the study of energy — originated during the 1800s, as steam engines...
Massive Black Holes Shown to Act Like Quantum Particles
...real world? That’s what [their research] is about,” said Zvi Bern, a theoretical particle physicist at the Bhaumik Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It...
A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws
...physics as “the UV,” drawing an analogy with infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths of light. In the 1960s and ’70s, the particle physics titans Kenneth Wilson and Steven Weinberg put their...
In Search of Cracks in Albert Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
...and the United Kingdom; then, at 29, she was invited back to Mexico to run the theoretical physics department of the Mesoamerican Center for Theoretical Physics. A few years later,...
The Mysterious Forces Inside the Nucleus Grow a Little Less Strange
...nuclear physics,” said Laura Fabbietti, a physicist at the Technical University of Munich, “understanding [these] interactions from first principles.” After decades of work, powerful ways of spying on “hadrons” —...
Quantum Complexity Tamed by Machine Learning
If scientists understood exactly how electrons act in molecules, they’d be able to predict the behavior of everything from experimental drugs to high-temperature superconductors. Following decades of physics-based insights, artificial...
Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup
Two teams have shown how quantum approaches can solve problems faster than classical computers, bringing physics and computer science closer together. For Valeria Saggio to boot up the computer in...