Physics
The Near-Magical Mystery of Quasiparticles
The zoo of spontaneously emerging particlelike entities known as quasiparticles has grown quickly and become more and more exotic. Here are a few of the most curious and potentially useful examples.
This Tenet Shows Time Travel May Be Possible
Director Christopher Nolan could take a tip from new research into “closed timelike curves.”
The Charmed Life of Frank Wilczek
A novelist gets a physicist to explain his scientific breakthroughs.
The Joy of Condensed Matter
Hard times in fundamental physics got you down? Let’s talk excitons.
Growing Inventory of Black Holes Offers a Radical Probe of the Cosmos
One black hole is nice, but astrophysicists can do a lot more science with 50 of them.
Physicists Study How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide
Since they can’t prod actual universes as they inflate and bump into each other in the hypothetical multiverse, physicists are studying digital and physical analogs of the process.
Secret Ingredient Found to Power Supernovas
Three-dimensional supernova simulations have solved the mystery of why they explode at all.
