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Destruction and beauty in a distant galaxy 23 Aug 2013 | 12:24 am
The large image shows the jet streaming from the center of the galaxy M87, in visible light. The inset zooms in on the black hole, and shows the swirling gas around the galaxy’s core in radio light. M...
The weird and wonderful world of quasiparticles 20 Aug 2013 | 01:33 am
Electrons in materials can behave in strikingly different ways than their free counterparts. Especially at cold temperatures, interactions between electrons and atoms in a material make the whole syst...
How I learned to stop worrying and tolerate the multiverse 18 Aug 2013 | 09:12 pm
The evil mirror-universe Mr. Spock, from the original Star Trek series episode “Mirror, Mirror”. The beard is obviously a sign of his evilness, which means somewhere in a parallel universe there’s a g...
Albert Einstein vs. the Universe 16 Aug 2013 | 11:39 pm
Einstein’s greatest blender. [Credit: BBJ on Flickr] Like Tupac Shakur, Albert Einstein looms large in the popular imagination after his death. Seemingly every story relating to quantum entanglement ...
Mapping a black hole’s magnetic field, using a pulsar 14 Aug 2013 | 11:42 pm
Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies generate a lot of light, produced by hot plasma swirling around them. That plasma both produces and is shaped by powerful magnetic fields — at least...
That durned Schrödinger’s cat 12 Aug 2013 | 06:46 pm
Put me in that box at your own risk! As today’s Google Doodle reminded me, today is the 126th anniversary of the birth of Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger. He happens to be one of very few of the...
It’s a great big Universe and we’re all really puny 9 Aug 2013 | 06:45 pm
It’s a great big universe, and we’re all really puny We’re just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney. It’s big and black and inky and we are small and dinky It’s a big universe and we...
The Mighty Neutrino vs. a cosmological conundrum 6 Aug 2013 | 07:32 pm
Though she be but little, she is fierce! - William Shakespeare, writing about neutrinos The contents of the Universe 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Note that neutrinos comprise about 10 percent o...
No, this new theory does not “cast doubt” on dark matter 5 Aug 2013 | 11:19 pm
A few highlights in the CMB power spectrum. a. The third peak indicates the total matter content of the Universe, both baryonic (ordinary) and dark. Planck has much better data for this peak than WMAP...
Will we ever have reliable nuclear fusion power? 31 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
(This piece originally appeared in the “Will We Ever?” column at BBC Future. I changed the accompanying image and added a note at the bottom, but otherwise left everything the same, including UK spell...
