Fields United: Bridging the Gap Between Biology and Physics
In high school, your science education most likely consisted of sharply segmented classes such as biology and physics with no overlap. But what if...
Quantum Computing: A Whole New World
If I told you that you could be in many different places at once, you would probably laugh aloud and promptly deem me insane. As preposterous as the...
Pool, Entropy, and Your Messy Room
Mother: “How many times do I have to tell you to clean your room?” Teen: “I can’t help it. It looks like this because of...
Topological Phase Transitions
Where Two Dimensions Don’t Fall Flat The intuitive classification of matter as solid, liquid, or gas, and the transition between these states,...
Gravitational Waves: Hearing the Universe’s Story
Now synonymous with “genius”, Albert Einstein has turned out to be the gift that keeps on giving. In the early 1900s, Einstein had the incredible...
A Fifth Force of Nature: The Protophobic X Boson
“Physics has been solved!” many scientists declared upon the announcement that gravitational waves had been detected in February of this year,...
The Universe is Full of Bagels
Atoms. Tokamaks. The latest Nobel Prize in in Physics. What do all of these have in common? The answer: bagels. No, the answer to life, the...
The Large Hadron Collider Returns
Despite assurance by Nima Arkani-Hamed, particle theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study, that collision experiments at the Large Hadron...
Pluto’s Planetary Problem
Fifteen years ago, every child was taught that there are nine planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,...