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Climate modeling innovators are honored with half the physics Nobel
Syukuro Manabe pioneered the simulation of Earth’s climate. Klaus Hasselmann extracted climate trends from noisy weather data and identified patterns of human-induced warming.
Parisi shares Nobel Prize for breakthroughs in understanding disordered systems
The laureate’s solution to a spin-glass model underlies techniques used in a variety fields, including neuroscience and computer engineering.
Ten billion years ago, galaxies were already running out of gas
A look into the distant reaches of the universe offers clues about when, why, and how star formation shuts off.
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Israel has become a powerhouse in quantum technologies
A supportive government, available capital, and world-class academic institutions are some of the factors behind the nation’s quantum ascendance.
Subsurface imaging shows scale of the tragedy of Indigenous children
Archaeologists and geophysicists in Canada are trying to pinpoint the signatures of unmarked burials by using geophysical methods in varied terrains.
Articles
Biological tissues as mechanical metamaterials
How can researchers geometrically tune the extent to which a material embodies a stiff or flexible structure?
Colloids out of equilibrium
The fuel-driven assembly of colloids has opened a route to new, biologically inspired active materials.
Branched flow
In many kinds of irregular media, propagating waves enter a beautiful and relatively neglected regime called branched flow. It affects sound, light, water, and matter waves over vastly different length scales.
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The quantum mechanics of viscosity
Although a liquid’s viscosity depends strongly on temperature and pressure, its minimum value is fixed by fundamental physical constants.