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Exploding Stars Are Rare—but if One Was Close Enough, It Could Threaten Life on Earth
Stars like the sun are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1 percent over years and decades, thanks to the fusion of...
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Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionPhysicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious “dark” energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be slightly weakening with...
Fresh X-Rays Reveal a Universe as Clumpy as Cosmology Predicts | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionClusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies sit at the intersections of giant, crisscrossing filaments of matter that form the tapestry of the cosmos....
Use RAG for drug discovery with Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Bedrock provides a broad range of models from Amazon and third-party providers, including Anthropic, AI21, Meta, Cohere, and Stability AI, and covers a...
Dynamical quantum phase transitions from random matrix theory
David Pérez-García1, Leonardo Santilli2,3, and Miguel Tierz11Departamento de Análisis Matemático y Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain2Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua...
Dark matter vs modified gravity: which team are you on? – Physics World
Coke or Pepsi? Messi or Ronaldo? Taylor Swift or…well, without wanting to set the Swifties against Physics World, let’s just say there’s often a...
Physicists observe false vacuum decay in a ferromagnetic superfluid – Physics World
Physicists in Italy have observed a phenomenon known as false vacuum decay for the first time. The work, which was performed in a ferromagnetic...
International Day of Women and Girls in Science: inspiring stories from Physics World – Physics World
With 2023 seeing the fifth woman in history to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics, Katherine Skipper considers what Physics...
Cosmic combat: delving into the battle between dark matter and modified gravity – Physics World
In the search for a cosmological model that perfectly explains our universe, most astronomers invoke the notion of dark matter. But...
In a ‘Dark Dimension,’ Physicists Search for Missing Matter | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionWhen it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe, most of what scientists think exists is consigned to a dark, murky domain. Ordinary...
Find your future with Physics World Careers 2024 – Physics World
Tushna Commissariat and Sarah Tesh outline what’s on offer in Physics World Careers 2024 – your comprehensive, free-to-read, 106-page guide that has all...
Janna Levin: Why I’m Co-Hosting the Joy of Why Podcast | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionWhat a joy — pun intended — to co-host season 3 of The Joy of Why alongside (metaphorically if not physically in space or...
Arno Penzias: Nobel laureate who co-discovered ‘echo of Big Bang’ dies aged 90 – Physics World
The cosmologist Arno Penzias, who discovered the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with Robert Wilson, died...
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