~physics-quanta-maga | Bookmarks (15)
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Vacuum of Space to Decay Sooner Than Expected (but Still Not Soon) | Quanta Magazine
One of the quantum fields that fills the universe is special because its default value seems...
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What Could Explain the Gallium Anomaly? | Quanta Magazine
Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment,...
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Tracing the Hidden Hand of Magnetism in the Galaxy | Quanta Magazine
Susan Clark is helping to unravel the mysterious workings of the Milky Way’s magnetic field, a...
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How Is Science Even Possible? | Quanta Magazine
How are scientists able to crack fundamental questions about nature and life? How does math make...
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The Enduring Mystery of How Water Freezes
Making ice requires more than subzero temperatures. The unpredictable process takes microscopic scaffolding, random jiggling and...
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The S-Matrix Is the Oracle Physicists Turn To in Times of Crisis | Quanta Magazine
Particle physicists in search of the next theory of reality are consulting a mathematical structure that...
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He Seeks Mystery Magnetic Fields With His Quantum Compass | Quanta Magazine
Alex Sushkov is updating an old technology with new quantum tricks in hopes of sensing the...
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Will Better Superconductors Transform the World? | Quanta Magazine
Scientists are pursuing materials that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency under ambient conditions. In this...
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Dogged Dark Matter Hunters Find New Hiding Places to Check | Quanta Magazine
Perhaps dark matter is made of an entirely different kind of particle than the ones physicists...
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How a NASA Probe Solved a Scorching Solar Mystery | Quanta Magazine
The outer layers of the sun’s atmosphere are a blistering million degrees hotter than its surface....
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AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities | Quanta Magazine
Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into...
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Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians think abstract tools from a field called symplectic geometry might help with planning missions to...
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Can Information Escape a Black Hole? | Quanta Magazine
Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can...
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How the Ancient Art of Eclipse Prediction Became an Exact Science | Quanta Magazine
The timing of the total eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be known to within a...
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Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds | Quanta Magazine
A generation of physicists has referred to the dark energy that permeates the universe as “the...