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Taming Superconductors With String Theory
...is taking the “everything” literally. He’s applying the mathematics of string theory to a major problem at the other end of physics — the behavior of a potentially revolutionary class...
Dwarf Galaxies Dim Hopes of Dark Matter
...get more creative. “Even though many people are working very hard on the WIMP paradigm, people are starting to think more broadly,” said Mark Trodden, a professor of theoretical physics...
Classical Computing Embraces Quantum Ideas
Someday, quantum computers may be able to solve complex optimization problems, quickly mine huge data sets, simulate the kind of physics experiments that currently require billion-dollar particle accelerators, and accomplish...
Scientists Seek to Update Evolution
...and of business as usual. After Galileo and Newton dragged physics out of its ancient errors in the 1600s, it rolled forward from one modest advance to the next until...
Mapping the Brain to Build Better Machines
...a different possibility. Cox’s team views the brain as a sort of physics engine, with existing physics models that it uses to simulate what the world should look like. Tai...
Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions
...areas of physics such as string theory. They form “a nexus where lots of different areas of mathematics come together,” Cohn said. “Something wonderful is happening, and I’d like to...
Treading Softly in a Connected World
...complications, and Stanley, a professor of physics at Boston University, thinks he knows why. “Everything depends on everything else,” he said. Three years ago, Stanley and his colleagues discovered the...
Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
...machines in the same way we understand the physics of explosives.” We haven’t solved every problem we face regarding biological behavior because we have yet to identify the actual, specific...
New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time
...beyond neuroscience and reaches into physics. Physicists consider space-time as a cohesive, four-dimensional entity, a fabric upon which the objects and events of the universe are embedded. “Neuroscience must converge...