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Work on Earth’s Climate and Other Complex Systems Earns Nobel Prize in Physics
...This pioneering work on distilling complexity has been honored by today’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Syukuro Manabe, a climatologist at Princeton University, and Klaus Hasselmann, at the Max Planck Institute...
Major Quantum Computing Strategy Suffers Serious Setbacks
...Nature in April. Yet despite this problem, even the field’s critics find the science too promising to ignore. “The physics behind the creation of Majoranas is well understood theoretically,” said...
‘Impossible’ Particle Discovery Adds Key Piece to the Strong Force Puzzle
...meeting of Syracuse University’s quark physics group, Ivan Polyakov announced that he had uncovered the fingerprints of a semi-mythical particle. “We said, ‘This is impossible. What mistake are you making?’”...
One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles
...particle physics or cosmology — a state of affairs that could continue indefinitely — this could be the most promising route for putting the latest ideas about quantum gravity to...
The New Thermodynamic Understanding of Clocks
Studies of the simplest possible clocks have revealed their fundamental limitations — as well as insights into the nature of time itself. In 2013, a masters student in physics named...
This Physicist Discovered an Escape From Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox
...— then seemed to be permanently lost. Hawking’s calculation posed a paradox — the infamous “black hole information paradox” — that has motivated research in fundamental physics ever since. On...
How Big Can the Quantum World Be? Physicists Probe the Limits.
...as motionless as the laws of physics permit. Two teams of researchers, in Austria and Switzerland, have independently succeeded in freezing such minuscule nanoparticles, just 100 to 140 nanometers across,...
How Steven Weinberg Transformed Physics and Physicists
...physics, in the first of his many tour de force textbooks, Gravitation and Cosmology. He also realized that the seemingly disparate fields of particle physics and cosmology had to be...
Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real
...is amazing: You evade the second law of thermodynamics,” said Roderich Moessner, director of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany, and a co-author...