If Advanced LIGO still can't find gravity waves, something is wrong in astrophysics.
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The Long Search for Elusive Ripples in Spacetime
How Foul Weather and Physics Can Turn a Crane Into a Tragedy
Cranes use leverage to lift and move heavy objects. Under the wrong conditions, the wind can leverage a crane into disastrous collapse.
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The Mind-Bending Physics of a Tennis Ball’s Spin
How tennis players create spin is about as complicated a physics question you can set about solving without invoking subatomic particles.
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Dark Matter May Be More Complex Than Physicists Thought
The physicist James Bullock explains how a complicated “dark sector” of interacting particles may illuminate some puzzling observations of the centers of galaxies.
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The Huge, Pricey Detectors That Capture Tiny Neutrinos
A roundup of some of the super-elaborate—and super-expensive—detectors physicists use to study neutrinos.
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The Huge, Pricey Detectors That Capture Tiny Neutrinos
A roundup of some of the super-elaborate—and super-expensive—detectors physicists use to study neutrinos.
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We Finally Know What Graphene Is Good For: Origami
Despite graphene’s impressive resume, no one has quite figured out what the stuff is good for.
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A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass
One of the greatest mysteries in physics could be solved by a mattress-like axion field that permeates space and time.
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