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Physics

How Supermassive Black Holes Were Discovered

Astronomers turned a fantastic concept into reality.

February 6, 2019

What Impossible Meant to Feynman

Physicist Paul Steinhardt remembers a great mentor and scientist.

January 30, 2019

Paradox Is Illuminating the Black Hole

How reconciling opposites is driving the science of black holes forward.

January 28, 2019

How Black Holes Nearly Ruined Time

Quantum mechanics rescued our understanding of past and future from the black hole.

The Strangeness of Black Holes

From quantum information to the Schwarzschild radius.

January 16, 2019

The Present Phase of Stagnation in the Foundations of Physics Is Not Normal

The problem is loads of wrong predictions from theoretical physicists.

November 21, 2018

Laser Physicists, Including Third Woman Ever, Win Physics Nobel

Three researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in laser physics. The winners include a woman for the first time in 55 years.

November 1, 2018

Have Balloons and Ice Broken the Standard Model?

How five anomalous events at two neutrino experiments provide evidence for supersymmetry.

October 10, 2018