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Solid or Liquid? Physicists Redefine States of Matter
...physics textbooks say. The atomic patterns in quasicrystals like this model of an aluminium-palladium-manganese surface exhibit order, but never repeat. But this long-accepted explanation for the rigidity of solids fails...
Dark Energy Tested on a Tabletop
...physics,” said Burrage. “Pretty much anytime you want to go beyond that, the new physics you try and introduce gives you new scalar fields.” Scalar fields could produce dark energy...
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...
Is Infinity Real?
...laws of physics. We don’t have to examine the foundations of physics to see examples of how the infinity assumption can give qualitative answers that are not quite correct in...
Paradoxical Crystal Baffles Physicists
...“On the basis of established wisdoms this cannot possibly happen, and henceforth completely new physics should be at work.” It is too soon to tell what, if anything, this “new...
Responding Rapidly to Big Discoveries
...to three-week-long rapid response workshops are rush-approved and scheduled within six months. Similar programs are held at the Aspen Center for Physics and the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics....
Physicists Close In on ‘Perfect’ Optical Lens
...decade ago, but by achieving it in novel ways, two groups “have made negative refraction a practical reality at optical frequencies,” said Sir John Pendry, a professor of physics at...
Does Nothingness Exist?
...call it nothing? After all, there could still be energy inside or perhaps subatomic matter and particles that we just can’t see. In modern physics, this idea of nothingness has...
The New Laws of Explosive Networks
...they break — has arisen from the physics of coffee. Researchers usually think of network connectivity as happening in a slow, continuous manner, similar to the way water moves through...