The physicist Gabriela González is on the cusp of finding the first direct evidence of gravitational waves.
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Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity
The Jellyfish’s Swimming Secret? It’s a Master of Suction
New fluid dynamics research shows that jellyfish and lampreys essentially suction their way through Earth’s oceans.
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Shape-Shifting Neutrinos Grab the Nobel Prize in Physics
Neutrinos are the second-most abundant particle in the universe...and the most elusive.
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Visions of Future Physics
Nima Arkani-Hamed is championing a campaign to build the world’s largest particle collider, even as he pursues a new vision of the laws of nature.
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The Long Search for Elusive Ripples in Spacetime
If Advanced LIGO still can't find gravity waves, something is wrong in astrophysics.
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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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