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Physics Has Demoted Mass

Modern physics has taught us that mass is not an intrinsic property.

November 2, 2017

Ice Fishing for Neutrinos

Ignorant and lucky at the bottom of the Earth.

October 26, 2017

LIGO Architects Win Nobel Prize in Physics

The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.

October 3, 2017

The Universe Began With a Big Melt, Not a Big Bang

The cosmological constant and the creation of the universe.

September 25, 2017

A Letter to Einstein from the Future

Two Princeton physicists catch Albert up.

Will We Ever Know What Dark Matter Is?

The search for the elusive material is reaching the end of its tether.

August 16, 2017