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Dogged Dark Matter Hunters Find New Hiding Places to Check
...weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) and axions. These are the simplest formulations for dark matter, and each type of particle would also elegantly solve other physics mysteries. But after roughly...
Is the Great Neutrino Puzzle Pointing to Multiple Missing Particles?
...and half results. In recent years, they’ve devised new theories that are more complicated than the sterile neutrino, but which, if correct, would thoroughly revolutionize physics — resolving anomalies in...
A Mathematician Who Fled to Freedom but Still Stares Down Doubts
...liked physics. I did well in my physics classes, but never felt like I gained an intuitive understanding of everyday physical events. But when I started working with my Ph.D....
Do We Need a New Theory of Gravity?
...is a professor of theoretical physics and the deputy head of the physics department at Imperial College London. Her research lies at the intersection of particle physics, gravity and cosmology....
The Two Faces of Space-Time
A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can sometimes be two things at once. Anyone who has seen the classic...
A New Idea for How to Assemble Life
...unlikely things, such as you and me, even exist at all. And it seeks that explanation not, in the usual manner of physics, in timeless physical laws, but in a...
Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum?
...might mean in the age of quantum mechanics. The principles of thermodynamics are cornerstones of our understanding of physics. But they were discovered in the era of steam-driven technology, long...
In a Numerical Coincidence, Some See Evidence for String Theory
...at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, and the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “So these corrections are our first way to tell...
Echoes of Electromagnetism Found in Number Theory
...and he had used the physics framework they provided to think about questions in geometric Langlands. But that work — let alone the physics paper that helped motivate it —...