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First Support for a Physics Theory of Life
...near volcanic vents in early Earth’s primordial soup (but replicating the conditions that actually gave rise to life is guesswork). Rahul Sarpeshkar, a professor of engineering, physics and microbiology at...
The Physics of Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life
...be due to the physics of cold water. A Frozen Paradox “Snowball Earth” was on everyone’s lips when Simpson was an undergraduate in the late 1990s. In 1992, the geochemist...
The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics
It’s one thing to smash protons together. It’s another to make scientific sense of the debris that’s left behind. This is the situation at CERN, the laboratory that houses the...
A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises
...I was a postdoc, I was teaching myself physics and becoming a physicist, and some of it was tangible, especially since I’m often interested in macroscopic phenomena. So I decided...
The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology
...series dives deep into math and physics theories, kicking off with ‘universality,’ a phenomenon that reveals underlying mathematical connections in the world,” Driscoll wrote in an email. “Depicting universality on...
Can a New Law of Physics Explain a Black Hole Paradox?
Leonard Susskind and collaborators set out to understand why black hole interiors grow forever. They ended up proposing a new law of physics. Christopher Webb Young/Quanta Magazine...
A Polymath on Physics, Computer Science, Neuroscience and Literature
Vijay Balasubramanian discusses the connections he sees between physics, computer science, neuroscience and literature and the humanities. Photo by Caroline Gutman for Quanta Magazine; video by Emily Buder and Rick...
2021’s Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics
It was a big year. Fermilab discovered possible evidence of new physics with the muon G-2 experiment. Physicists created a time crystal, a new phase of matter that appears to...
Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics
...potential applications, we need to understand the fundamental physics that drives the theory of quantum computing. Emily Buder/Quanta Magazine; Adrian Vasquez de Velasco, Chris FitzGerald and DVDP for Quanta Magazine...