Is Cosmology Broken? This Map May Be a Crucial Puzzle Piece
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope could help resolve some cosmic discrepancies: How fast the universe is expanding and how evenly matter is distributed.
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How Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities
Read more: How Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible RealitiesRichard Feynman’s path integral is a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy. Physicists still struggle to figure out how to use it, and what it means.
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Researchers Argue Black Holes Will Destroy All Quantum States
Read more: Researchers Argue Black Holes Will Destroy All Quantum StatesNew calculations suggest that the event horizons will eventually “decohere” quantum possibilities—even those that are far away.
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How Much Detail of the Moon Can Your Smartphone Really Capture?
Read more: How Much Detail of the Moon Can Your Smartphone Really Capture?What’s the smallest lunar object a phone camera lens could resolve from Earth? Here’s what the physics of light tells us about shooting the moon.
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The ‘Little Bang’ Helping Physicists Study the Infant Universe
Read more: The ‘Little Bang’ Helping Physicists Study the Infant UniverseBy recreating an early state of matter called the quark-gluon plasma, scientists hope to understand the conditions that made the universe what it is today.
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Mathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible Black Hole Shapes
Read more: Mathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible Black Hole ShapesIn three-dimensional space, the surface of a black hole must be a sphere. But in higher dimensions, an infinite number of configurations are possible.
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Can You Really Pump Water Without Any Electricity?
Read more: Can You Really Pump Water Without Any Electricity?To see if those videos of people conjuring liquid without any external power actually hold water, you’ll need physics—and a straw.
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This Is the Lightest Paint in the World
Read more: This Is the Lightest Paint in the WorldAn energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler.
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Pi Is Hiding Everywhere
Read more: Pi Is Hiding EverywhereFor Pi Day, let’s track down the surprising spots where this mathematical constant turns up, from the quantum world to the everyday one.
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The Electron Is Having a (Magnetic) Moment. It’s a Big Deal
Read more: The Electron Is Having a (Magnetic) Moment. It’s a Big DealA new experiment pulled off the most precise measurement of an electron’s self-generated magnetic field—and the universe’s subatomic model is at stake.
