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Universal Quantum Phenomenon Found in Strange Metals
...involved with the new experiments. The findings, reported today in Nature Physics by a team working at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada and the National Laboratory for Intense Magnetic...
An Italian Cosmologist Who Wanders in Dante’s Dark Wood
...about cosmology at all when I started physics, and even then I wasn’t very convinced about physics in itself. But physics offered me a good opportunity to combine several different...
Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole
...— is spinning not far from the innermost orbit allowed by the laws of physics. If so, this affords astronomers their closest look yet at the funhouse-mirrored space-time that surrounds...
Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies
...next step in physics, you actually have to do it that way. At that point, physics became linked to mathematics. Mathematics is the language of physics. We’re now going through...
Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems
...Bangs, that have always been physically disconnected from our own.) When Everett presented his thesis, and at the same time published the idea in a respected physics journal, it was...
Famous Experiment Dooms Alternative to Quantum Weirdness
...at the quantum scale to Niels Bohr’s most important physics research: his 1913 calculations of the electronic energy levels of the hydrogen atom. Bohr realized that when electrons jump between...
Laser Physicists, Including Third Woman Ever, Win Physics Nobel
Three researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in laser physics. The winners include a woman for the first time in 55 years. The Nobel Prize in Physics...
‘Quantum Atmospheres’ May Reveal Secrets of Matter
...a ceramic-like insulator. Topological insulators have drawn attention for their unusual physics as well as for their potential use in quantum computers and so-called spintronic devices, which utilize electrons’ spins...
The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra
The 19th-century discovery of numbers called “quaternions” gave mathematicians a way to describe rotations in space, forever changing physics and math. Imagine winding the hour hand of a clock back...