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Ben Brubaker

Ben Brubaker is a freelance science journalist whose writing has appeared in Quanta Magazine, Scientific American, and The Conversation, as well as on his blog, Measuring in Reflection. He has a Ph.D. in physics from Yale University and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking

Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but they help reveal the limits of algorithms.

September 22, 2023

Four Years On, New Experiment Sees No Sign of “Cosmic Dawn”

When astronomers tried to confirm a signal from the birth of the first stars after the Big Bang, they saw nothing.

March 4, 2022

How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality

The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles.

February 9, 2022