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Particle Physicists Puzzle Over a New Duality
Once found, these inscrutable rules have helped particle physicists calculate scattering amplitudes at much higher levels of precision than they…
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What an iPhone Lidar Can Show About the Speed of Light
But since this uses the total time of flight for the ball, it gives the total distance the ball traveled—to…
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A Minimalist Approach to the Hunt for Dark Matter
In particular, Antypas’ team uses their experiment to search for a class of dark matter known as ultralight dark matter.…
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How to Simulate Walking on the Moon—Without Leaving the Planet
Even if the magnitude of the gravitational force and the buoyancy force were equal, having a different location for the…
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NASA Delayed the Psyche Launch. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal
NASA and the Psyche team declined interview requests until an independent review of the mission delay has been completed. Agency…
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How Much Power Does Batman Need for His Ascender Gun?
Everyone has the same comment about Batman: He’s cool because he’s just a normal dude, but he’s also a superhero.…
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‘Science Now is Very Social’: Inside the Particle Physics Conference That Helps Shape 10 Years of Research
Picture a particle physicist. What do they look like as they do their research? There’s a certain popular image of…
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Time loops may not be forbidden by physics after all
Physicists find that causal loops, where two events separated in time influence each other in paradoxical ways, are allowed in…
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Why Can’t a Magnet-Propelled Truck Actually Work?
Finally, we have the crane itself. I left off some of the unimportant forces here—the most critical are the forces…
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Q&A: Carver Mead revolutionized computers. Can he do the same for physics?
Carver Mead isn’t impressed by complicated things. As far as he’s concerned, the bigger challenge is to take a complex…
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