AvatarJohn DDark Matter The search for dark matter gets a speed boost from quantum technology space.com - Benjamin Brubaker Nearly a century after dark matter was first proposed to explain the motion of galaxy clusters, physicists still have no idea what it’s made …
AvatarJohn DAtoms Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter Quanta Magazine - Natalie Wolchover Twenty years ago, physicists set out to investigate a mysterious asymmetry in the proton’s interior. Their results, published today, show how …
AvatarJohn DMathematics Mathematicians Set Numbers in Motion to Unlock Their Secrets Quanta Magazine - Kelsey Houston-Edwards A new proof demonstrates the power of arithmetic dynamics, an emerging discipline that combines insights from number theory and dynamical systems.
AvatarJohn DMutations A new study reveals that quantum physics can cause mutations in our DNA phys.org - University of Surrey Quantum biology is an emerging field of science, established in the 1920s, which looks at whether the subatomic world of quantum mechanics plays a …
AvatarJohn DUniverse ‘It Seems That I Know How the Universe Originated’ verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Alan LightmanUpdated at 3:27 p.m. ET on February 9, 2021. In Jorge Luis Borges’s story “The Book of Sand,” a mysterious Bible peddler knocks on the narrator’s door and offers to sell him a sacred book he came by in...