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‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust
...a March 17 news conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. But in the months following the announcement, outside experts cried foul, arguing that the scientists had...
Finding Dark Energy in the Details
...astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago and a senior staff scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in nearby Batavia, Ill., co-founded the Dark Energy Survey (DES),...
The Thermodynamic Theory of Ecology
...theory in ecology that applies insights from physics to the study of the environment. John Harte, a professor of ecology at the University of California, Berkeley, has a wry, wizened...
Quark Quartet Fuels Quantum Feud
...it,” explained Thomas Cohen, a physics professor at the University of Maryland. Quantum Chromodynamics Quarks have one of three “color charges,” which are analogous to the primary colors red, green...
At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale
...theoretical physics at the University of Oxford. The multiverse ennui can’t last forever. “People are forced to adjust,” said Manfred Lindner, a professor of physics and director of the Max...
In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
...in one specialist’s words, but which, despite their seeming senselessness, arise frequently in physics. The equations are mathematical abstractions of growth, the hustle and bustle of elementary particles and other...
In Search of Dark Stars
...understand dark matter and her experiences as a woman in physics. “In my entire career I’ve always been aware of being a woman in physics,” she said. “Every room, every...
The New Science of Evolutionary Forecasting
...physics tells him so. “The whole of physics is about prediction, and we’ve gotten quite good at it,” said Lässig, a physicist at the University of Cologne. “When we know...
A Bold Critic of the Big Bang’s ‘Smoking Gun’
In mid-March, a panel of four astrophysicists working on an experiment to probe the first moments of time held an extraordinary press conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)...