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How a Biofilm’s Strange Shape Emerges From Cellular Geometry
...this emergence that attracted the biophysicist Peter Yunker to the microbial structures. Trained in soft matter physics — the study of materials that can be structurally altered — he is...
Quantum Leaps, Long Assumed to Be Instantaneous, Take Time
...an internal matter of physics, as one of its relation to philosophy and human knowledge in general.” In other words, there’s a lot riding on the reality (or not) of...
The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution
...wrote last year in Journal of Physics A. “The other theories find her somewhat odd, somehow different in nature from the rest, yet everyone comes to her for advice, and...
A Physicist Who Models ISIS and the Alt-Right
...buttoned-up professor of physics at the University of Oxford. Then, a decade ago, he decamped to the University of Miami — a young institution that he sees as unconstrained by...
Star-Swallowing Black Holes Reveal Secrets in Exotic Light Shows
...of astrophysicists proposed a new theoretical model for how TDEs work. The model can explain why different TDEs can appear to behave differently, even though the underlying physics is presumably...
On the Best Use of Science to Safeguard Humanity
...of mathematical physics, whereas I stayed with phenomenology physics. My work had more links to observation. Can you tell us more about why the 1960s were such a remarkable moment...
Physicists Aim to Classify All Possible Phases of Matter
...sphere and the torus. They’ve also begun to explore the wilderness of phases that can arise near absolute zero in 3-D matter. “It’s not a particular law of physics” that...
Elusive Higgs-Like State Created in Exotic Materials
Two teams of physicists have created the “Higgs mode” – a link between particle physics and the physics of matter. The work could help researchers understand the strange behavior of...
New Quantum Paradox Clarifies Where Our Views of Reality Go Wrong
...the foundations of quantum physics. The experiment is decidedly strange. For example, it requires making measurements that can erase any memory of an event that was just observed. While this...