- Physicists Edge Closer to Taming the Three-Body Problemby Charlie Wood, LiveScience on May 7, 2021 at 5:30 pm
A new model cuts through the chaos to reach the best-yet predictions of complex gravitational interactions — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Scientists Supersize Quantum Effects with Entangled Drum Duetby Daniel Garisto on May 6, 2021 at 6:00 pm
Two teams have demonstrated new degrees of quantum measurements in micron-sized metal drums — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- The Fermilab Muon Measurement May or May Not Point to New Physics, But …by Robert P. Crease on May 2, 2021 at 2:00 pm
It was important either way, because the experiment that generated it was breathtakingly precise — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Muon Results Throw Physicists’ Best Theories into Confusionby Davide Castelvecchi, Nature magazine on April 29, 2021 at 1:30 pm
Experimental anomalies have sent researchers scrambling to concoct new explanations — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Searching for the Universe’s Most Energetic Particles, Astronomers Turn on the Radioby Katrina Miller on April 27, 2021 at 10:45 am
New radio-based observatories could soon detect ultrahigh-energy neutrinos, opening a new window on extreme cosmic physics — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Quantum Astronomy Could Create Telescopes Hundreds of Kilometers Wideby Anil Ananthaswamy on April 19, 2021 at 10:45 am
Astronomers hope to use innovations from the subatomic world to construct breathtakingly large arrays of optical observatories — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Is the Standard Model of Physics Now Broken?by Sabine Hossenfelder on April 7, 2021 at 5:00 pm
The discrepancy between the theoretical prediction and the experimentally determined value of the muon’s magnetic moment has become slightly stronger with a new result from Fermilab. But what… — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Big Physics News: The Muon g-2 Experiment Explainedby Clara Moskowitz, Jeffery DelViscio on April 7, 2021 at 4:00 pm
Particles called muons are behaving weirdly, and that could mean a huge discovery. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Long-Awaited Muon Measurement Boosts Evidence for New Physicsby Daniel Garisto on April 7, 2021 at 3:00 pm
Initial data from the Muon g-2 experiment have excited particle physicists searching for undiscovered subatomic particles and forces — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Long-Awaited Muon Physics Experiment Nears Moment of Truthby Davide Castelvecchi, Nature magazine on March 31, 2021 at 3:00 pm
A result that has been 20 years in the making could reveal the existence of new particles and upend fundamental physics — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Unexplained Results Intrigue Physicists at World’s Largest Particle Colliderby Daniel Garisto on March 25, 2021 at 3:00 pm
Muons and electrons might not experience the same fundamental interactions, contrary to Standard Model predictions — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Ultracold Quantum Collisions Have Been Achieved in Space for the First Timeby Karmela Padavic-Callaghan on March 19, 2021 at 10:45 am
Creating Bose-Einstein condensates—and crashing them together—in microgravity could lead to physics breakthroughs, better spacecraft navigation and more — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Why Does DNA Spontaneously Mutate? Quantum Physics Might Explainby Nicoletta Lanese, LiveScience on March 17, 2021 at 7:15 pm
A phenomenon called proton tunneling could account for point mutations in strands of genetic material — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Sunlight Changes Unequally All Year Longby Mark Fischetti, Jen Christiansen on March 14, 2021 at 1:00 pm
Some days we gain one minute; some days we gain three — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Poem: States of Matterby Anna Leahy on March 13, 2021 at 2:00 pm
Science in meter and verse — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Ketchup Is Not Just a Condiment: It Is Also a Non-Newtonian Fluidby H. Joachim Schlichting on March 12, 2021 at 11:45 am
Everybody’s favorite red sauce may be thin or thick, depending on how it is handled — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Physicists Measure the Gravitational Force between the Smallest Masses Yetby Ben Brubaker on March 10, 2021 at 4:00 pm
A laboratory experiment captured the pull between two minuscule gold spheres, paving the way for experiments that probe the quantum nature of gravity — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Quantum Mechanics, the Chinese Room Experiment and the Limits of Understandingby John Horgan on March 9, 2021 at 7:00 pm
All of us, even physicists, often process information without really knowing what we’re doing — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- This Is the Fastest Random-Number Generator Ever Builtby Davide Castelvecchi, Nature magazine on March 3, 2021 at 6:00 pm
A laser generates quantum randomness at a rate of 250 trillion bits per second and could lead to devices small enough to fit on a single chip — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Major Physics Society Will Not Meet in Cities with Racist Policing Recordsby Nidhi Subbaraman, Nature magazine on March 2, 2021 at 3:00 pm
The American Physical Society’s new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- Mystery of Spinning Atomic Fragments Solved at Lastby Charles Q. Choi on February 24, 2021 at 4:30 pm
New experiments have answered the decades-old question of how pieces of splitting nuclei get their spins — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
- New Supernova Alert System Promises Early Access to Spectacles in Spaceby James Riordon on February 22, 2021 at 11:45 am
Upgrades to the SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS) detection system offer advance notice of impending blasts — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com