Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics
WIRED Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they…
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WIRED Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they…
WIRED Recent calculations tie together two conjectures about gravity, potentially revealing new truths about its elusive quantum nature. Source: WIRED
WIRED Physicists propose that dark matter is capable of changing phases—into an exotic superfluid with zero viscosity. Source: WIRED
WIRED Contrary to conventional scientific wisdom, conscious beings and other macroscopic entities might have greater influence over the future than…
As physicists extend the 19th-century laws of thermodynamics to the quantum realm, they’re rewriting the relationships among energy, entropy and…
Physicists think they’ve got a winning way to solve the Riemann hypothesis, by mapping the distribution of prime numbers to…
When a German retiree proved a famous long-standing mathematical conjecture, the response was underwhelming. The post A Retiree Discovers an…
Computational physicist Sharon Glotzer is uncovering the rules by which complex collective phenomena emerge from simple building blocks. The post…
A decades-old method called the “bootstrap” is enabling new discoveries about the geometry underlying all quantum theories. The post A…
Geochemical signals from deep inside Earth are beginning to shed light on the planet’s first 50 million years, a formative…