Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.
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Physics
By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons.
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For cyclists, it’s a drag when you don’t shave your legs.
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Physicist Alan Lightman on evolution and atheism, creativity and spirituality.
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A precise new method of measuring gravitational waves is re-opening the book on general relativity.
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A new analysis argues that ubiquitous eruptions in the sun’s corona explain the vast flow of charged particles seen streaming out through the solar system.
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If the electron’s charge wasn’t perfectly round, it could reveal the existence of hidden particles. A new measurement approaches perfection.
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Richard Feynman’s path integral is both a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy about how the world is. But physicists are still struggling to figure out how to use it, and what it means.
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In neutron stars, astrophysicists see a form of matter like none other.
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The quest to detect neutrinos has physicists—and society—asking hard questions.
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