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Is Hawking any closer to solving the puzzle of black holes?
The information paradox is one of the great mysteries in our understanding of black holes. But has the famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking found the solution? By Garaint Lewis.
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Will Our Descendants Survive the Destruction of the Universe?
Billions of years from now, the universe as we know it will cease to exist. The good news is, that gives us a lot of time to prepare, and maybe even figure out a way to cheat cosmic death. Here are some possible ways our descendants might survive a cosmological apocalypse. By George Dvorsky.
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Einstein’s Unfinished Dream: Marrying Relativity to the Quantum World
On the centennial of the theory of general relativity, senior Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln reflects on Einstein's quest to understand the quantum world.
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Fast Radio Bursts Mystify Experts—for Now
Astronomers are closing in on the origins of baffling radio flashes from deep space. By Lee Billings.
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What could dark matter be?
Scientists don’t yet know what dark matter is made of, but they are full of ideas. By Laura Dattaro.
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Potential New Particle Sparks Flood of Theories
Physicists have produced nearly 100 papers on the latest tantalizing results from the Large Hadron Collider. By Davide Castelvecchi.
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Time’s (Almost) Reversible Arrow
The irreversibility of time may be a clue as to what makes up the universe’s dark matter. By Frank Wilczek.
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How Real Is Reality?
Reality seems pretty stubborn, pretty fixed — and pretty much independent of whatever is going on in your head. But is it, really? Astrophysicist Adam Frank explores the scientific debate.
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A Radical Reinterpretation of Einstein’s Theory
A cadre of physicists working on the theory of shape dynamics could change our understanding of reality. By Dan Falk.
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Physics’s pangolin
Trying to resolve the stubborn paradoxes of their field, physicists craft ever more mind-boggling visions of reality. By Margaret Wertheim. (June ’13)
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Taming Superconductors With String Theory
The physicist Subir Sachdev borrows tools from string theory to understand the puzzling behavior of high-temperature superconductors. By Kevin Hartnett.
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After 100 years, scientists are finally closing in on Einstein’s ripples
The rain began to fall as Joe Giaime and I scrambled down a lonely rise, back toward the observatory’s main building. It wasn’t so much rain as a hard mist, characteristic of the muggy weather southern Louisiana often sees in January when moisture rolls inland from the Gulf of Mexico. As gray clouds fell like a shroud over the loblolly pines all around us, Giaime mused, “Well, I guess you’ve already gathered that we’re in the middle of nowhere."
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Hold Up, Did We Just Crack Time Travel?
Astrophysicists famously proved Einstein’s theory on the existence of gravitational waves last week. Here’s the less covered part of it all: It might, down the line, bring us closer to moving through time. By Michael Howard.
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The hidden neutrino
The explanation for some strange experimental results could lie in undiscovered particles called sterile neutrinos. By Laura Dattaro.
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Hints of new LHC particle get slightly stronger
One fresh analysis keeps alive physicists’ hope for a breakthrough, but another is disappointing. By Davide Castelvecchi and Elizabeth Gibney. (Mar. 17)
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In One Universe, the Cat Dies
How the uncertain fate of a fictional tabby gave us the multiverse.
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Why are theoreticians filled with wanderlust?
A large tin holding dozens of keys sits in the office of the [CERN] Theory Secretariat. Each one unlocks a stay on a Theory corridor. Nanie Perrin hands them out, and collects them back, in a constant game of musical chairs - or rather, musical offices. On the Secretariat’s board (the only whiteboard in the corridor), departures are listed in red, arrivals in green.. By Corinne Pralavorio.
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Physicists discover flaws in superconductor theory
University of Houston physicists report finding major theoretical flaws in the generally accepted understanding of how a superconductor traps and holds a magnetic field.
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Astronomers in South Africa discover mysterious alignment of black holes
Deep radio imaging by researchers in the University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape, in South Africa, has revealed that supermassive black holes in a region of the distant universe are all spinning out radio jets in the same direction – most likely a result of primordial mass fluctuations in the early universe.
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Electrons slide through the hourglass on surface of bizarre material
A team of researchers at Princeton University has predicted the existence of a new state of matter in which current flows only through a set of surface channels that resemble an hourglass. These channels are created through the action of a newly theorized particle, dubbed the “hourglass fermion,” which arises due to a special property of the material...
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