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19 Women Leading Math and Physics
...career in physics or become a high school teacher. “There were no women in the faculty at Stanford at that time in the physics department,” Quinn said. “I didn’t see...
Inside the Knotty World of ‘Anyon’ Particles
A new class of quantum particle is about to emerge from the tangled considerations of quantum statistics. [No Caption] I. Prior to the emergence of quantum mechanics, fundamental physics was...
Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’
...vision of the universe, and with it, a new way of doing physics. Theorists of the era were struggling to find order in an unruly zoo of newfound particles. They...
How Life Turns Asymmetric
...view on this: Anything that’s not forbidden by the laws of physics is possible.” This article was reprinted on Wired.com. Scientists are uncovering how our bodies — and everything within...
Solution: ‘How Many Half-Lives?’
...likelihood to fall under the 5-sigma threshold (1 in 3.5 million, much used in physics experiments such as the proton decay calculation), it is 4.35 years, as determined by Ethaniel....
How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder
What’s the difference between physics and biology? Take a golf ball and a cannonball and drop them off the Tower of Pisa. The laws of physics allow you to predict...
Droplets That ‘Come to Life’
...these active-droplet “protocells” divided and proliferated, evolution could have acted on them, gradually making them more complex and leading to the rise of living cells. The physics of active-droplet division...
Dividing Droplets Could Explain Life’s Origin
...Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, both in Dresden, suggests an answer. The scientists studied the physics...
Explorers Find Passage to Earth’s Dark Age
...the group was in Santa Barbara for the annual Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research (CIDER) workshop at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Each summer, a rotating cast of...