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With a Simple Twist, a ‘Magic’ Material Is Now the Big Thing in Physics
...hit the solid-state physics field since the 2004 discovery that an intact sheet of carbon atoms — graphene — could be lifted off a block of graphite with a piece...
To Solve the Biggest Mystery in Physics, Join Two Kinds of Law
...are astonishingly simple. It is here that we find the two “standard models,” of particle physics and cosmology. Remarkably, modern insights about the most formidable challenge in theoretical physics —...
How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything
...then, the vacuum has become a bedrock concept in physics, the foundation of any theory of something. Von Guericke’s vacuum was an absence of air. The electromagnetic vacuum is the...
Why the Laws of Physics Are Inevitable
...far less gets said about one of the most profound facts to have crystallized in physics over the past half-century: To an astonishing degree, nature is the way it is...
How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality
...far removed from this branch of physics. The development of quantum mechanics showed otherwise. Experiments indicated that light, which had been thought of as an electromagnetic wave, sometimes behaves like...
The Physics Still Hiding in the Higgs Boson
...physics, and the linchpin that holds that decades-old set of equations together. But no other new particles have materialized at the LHC, leaving open many mysteries about the universe that...
Powerful ‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics From Raw Data
Researchers say we’re on the cusp of “GoPro physics,” where a camera can point at an event and an algorithm can identify the underlying physics equation. In 2017, Roger Guimerà...
The Year in Physics
The field of fundamental physics is experiencing both a period of confusion and an openness to new ideas. A decade ago, it was practically gospel truth among physicists that the...
How Feynman Diagrams Revolutionized Physics
...1962 set the gold standard in physics instruction and, when later published as a three-volume set, sold millions of copies worldwide. What most people outside of the physics community are...