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New Kind of Magnetism Spotted in an Engineered Material
...theoretical physicists at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, he wants to explore whether kinetic mechanisms like those at play within the moiré material could be used to manipulate charged particles...
Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes
...can form. Nevertheless, for the past 50 years, extremal black holes have served as useful models in theoretical physics. “They have nice symmetries that make it easier to calculate things,”...
The Voyage to the End of Ice
...rest of the planet. To nail down the answer, an expedition to the top of the world has to untangle the knotty physics of ice. “Pull out your ice picks,”...
A World Without Clouds
...the simulated climate “goes over a cliff,” said Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A leading authority on atmospheric physics, Emanuel called the new findings...
How Do Merging Supermassive Black Holes Pass the Final Parsec?
...in South Korea and a co-author of a September paper in Physics Letters B describing the idea. The black holes would cause this dark matter to vibrate like a bell...
Scientists Unravel How the Tonga Volcano Caused Worldwide Tsunamis
...hours after the volcano’s explosive zenith. “All of the mechanics and physics are quite similar,” said Eric Anderson, a researcher at the Colorado School of Mines who studies interactions between...
Brighter Than a Billion Billion Suns: Gamma-Ray Bursts Continue to Surprise
...more than five times longer than the result in 2018. “This is basically a breakthrough result,” said Brian Reville, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in...
Neutron-Star Collision Shakes Space-Time and Lights Up the Sky
...questions in astrophysics. “In one fell swoop, gravitational wave measurements” have opened “a window onto nuclear astrophysics, neutron star demographics and physics and precise astronomical distances,” said Scott Hughes, an...
In Quantum Games, There’s No Way to Play the Odds
...thinking about physics. These “nonlocal” games were conceived in the 1960s by the physicist John Stewart Bell as a way to understand the bizarre quantum phenomenon called entanglement. While quantum...