Polarization
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Announcing a New Science Magazine from Yale
The need for specialization and caution in the scientific community is no excuse for its members to renege on the responsibility to engage with the larger community of people we serve.Image courtesy Ancient Fund of the Library of the University of Seville / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now […] -
The Father of Inflation Clears Up a Big Misunderstanding
Last week researchers working on the BICEP2 experiment in Antarctica announced that they’d seen solid evidence of gravitational waves that emerged very early in the Universe’s history. This discovery lent support to inflation, a theory of cosmology long popular among physicists but still lacking in direct proof. (To learn more about the recent discovery and […] -
How to See Quantum Drops of Light
An illustration of wave interferenceSybille Yates via Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Though we can see in remarkably low-light conditions, humans aren’t quite sensitive enough to see individual photons—the particles that make up all types of light. In our day-to-day lives, we are so awash with light […]