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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...
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...
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: ‘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...
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....
A Random Place at the Table
...longer to fall down from the top of its flight back to its initial height? In high school physics, when students are asked to solve such problems, they are told...
Solution: A Hat Trick + 1 of Hat Puzzles
...postdoc in physics at Kyushu University.) In this game, there are 10 contestants. As before, they are given instructions by the host and allowed to confer before the game. The...
A Timely Fix for a Grand Theory of Nature
...ideas in ecology like neutral theory may be like the ideal gas law, an equation from physics that describes the general properties of gases very well. To make predictions about...