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The Fifth Force of Physics Is Hanging by a Thread
As scientists chase tantalizing hints of a new force, modern physics hangs in the balance.
What This Drawing Taught Me About Four-Dimensional Spacetime
Stuck in his research, a cosmologist finds a hint in an intricate drawing.
What Quantum Gravity Needs Is More Experiments
Math won’t solve quantum gravity. Experimentation will.
The Multiple Multiverses May Be One and the Same
If multiverses seem weird, it’s because we need to revamp our notions of time and space.
The Not-So-Fine Tuning of the Universe
There’s more than one way to build a universe suitable for life.
Even Physicists Find the Multiverse Faintly Disturbing
It’s not the immensity or inscrutability, but that it reduces physical law to happenstance.
Spark of Science: Melissa Franklin
Harvard’s first tenured woman physicist tells us about her heroes and her work.
When Einstein Tilted at Windmills
The young physicist’s quest to prove the theories of Ernst Mach.
The Astrophysicists Who Faked It
The inside story of the gravitational wave signal injection.
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