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Mathematicians Chase Moonshine’s Shadow
...problem. “At the end of the day when we understand what moonshine is, it will be in terms of physics,” Duncan said. Rotating a square 90 degrees and then reflecting...
Scientists Conjure Curves From Flatness
...two-dimensional structure,” said Randall Kamien, a professor of physics at Penn who heads the research group behind the result. “The whole thing will just pop up all by itself.” The...
Joint Dust Analysis Deflates Big Bang Signal
...Andrei Linde, a professor of physics at Stanford who, along with Alexei Starobinsky and Alan Guth, won the 2014 Kavli Prize in astrophysics for pioneering the theory of inflation. “Parts...
‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust
...a March 17 news conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. But in the months following the announcement, outside experts cried foul, arguing that the scientists had...
In Natural Networks, Strength in Loops
...in leaves and the cortical blood vessels are organized in this way. “We understand the physics of the connections between entities in full, disgusting detail,” Magnasco said of simple circulatory...
Solution: ‘Time Through an LCD Display’
...to making science games. The games feature a variety of physics topics, letting you run near the speed of light to experience relativity, fling planets to explore the laws of...
The Game Theory of Life
...“More recently, there have been some interesting, and much sounder, ideas, which make a link between fields that are addressing a similar issue: Statistical physics and evolutionary biology both try...
Solution: ‘How Many Half-Lives?’
...likelihood to fall under the 5-sigma threshold (1 in 3.5 million, much used in physics experiments such as the proton decay calculation), it is 4.35 years, as determined by Ethaniel....
Debating the Evolution of Multicellularity
...and the Evolution of Multicellularity,” at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The daily talk sessions were attended by scores of highly regarded...