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Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates

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Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates

By DANIEL GARISTO

Electrons have been seen uniting into entities with fractions of electric charge, this time without a magnetic field coaxing them into it.

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EARTH SCIENCE

 

Simple Equation Predicts the Shapes of Carbon-Capturing Wetlands

By GABRIEL POPKIN

To calculate the amount of carbon stored inside peatlands, researchers developed a unified theory of global "bog physics."

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By Gabriel Popkin (2021)

MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

 

Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang

By STEVE NADIS

By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative views of the universe's first moments.

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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

By Charlie Wood (2022)

ATOMIC PHYSICS

 

Searching for Dark Matter with a Tabletop 'Quantum Compass'

Video by EMILY BUDER & RUI BRAZ

The physicist Alex Sushkov has developed one of the most targeted magnetic resonance experiments to date with the aim of detecting a hypothetical dark matter particle called the axion.

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QUANTA SCIENCE PODCAST

 

Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons

By CHARLIE WOOD

For 50 years, physicists have understood current as a flow of charged particles. But a new experiment has found that in at least one strange material, this understanding falls apart.

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