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ASTRONOMY | ALL TOPICS

 

The Webb Space Telescope Is Reshaping Astronomy

By JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN

In the days after the mega-telescope started delivering data, astronomers reported exciting new discoveries about galaxies, stars, exoplanets and even Jupiter.

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QUANTUM GRAVITY

 

Physicists Create a Holographic Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer

By NATALIE WOLCHOVER

The unprecedented experiment explores the possibility that space-time somehow emerges from quantum information, even as the work's interpretation remains disputed.


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PARTICLE PHYSICS

 

A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature's Laws

By NATALIE WOLCHOVER

The usefulness of a one-way nesting-doll structure for the natural world may be nearing its end.


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MULTIMEDIA

 

Inside the Proton,
the 'Most Complicated Thing' Imaginable

Story by CHARLIE WOOD;
Graphics by MERRILL SHERMAN


The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity. We've attempted to form the most complete picture of it yet.

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THEORETICAL PHYSICS

 

Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder

By PHILIP BALL

Physicists have rewritten the second law of thermodynamics — that entropy, or disorder, will always increase — in terms of quantum information.

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