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In Pursuit of Quantum Biology With Birgitta Whaley
As an undergraduate at Oxford University in the mid-1970s, K. Birgitta Whaley struggled to choose between chemistry and physics. Now, as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and...
Possible Echo of Big Bang Detected
...provide strong hints that the new physics responsible for inflation may involve grand unification,” said Marc Kamionkowski, a professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, referring to the...
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...
What Sonic Black Holes Say About Real Ones
...Can Analogies Reveal the Laws of Physics? In the years following Unruh’s talk, black holes — places where general relativity and quantum mechanics, the two pillars of modern physics, meet...
Science Evolves. Will Science Education?
...studied a mix of physics, mathematical physics and literature at Cornell University.) I also looked for ways to extend my teaching beyond the canned lessons in the school-approved curricular guide....
Physicists Eye Quantum-Gravity Interface
It starts like a textbook physics experiment, with a ball attached to a spring. If a photon strikes the ball, the impact sets it oscillating very gently. But there’s a...
Forging a Qubit to Rule Them All
...qubit. “From a theorist’s perspective, topological quantum computing is the most elegant way of achieving robust quantum computation,” said John Preskill, a professor of theoretical physics and director of the...
On a Hunt for a Ghost of a Particle
...office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. QUANTA MAGAZINE: What would it mean for physics if sterile neutrinos exist? JANET CONRAD: The Standard Model of particle physics has done very...
The Case for Complex Dark Matter
...my time on is figuring out the cleanest and clearest cases for determining what comes from the physics of dark matter versus the physics of star formation and galaxy formation....