How the Higgs Field (Actually) Gives Mass to Elementary Particles
Sep 3, 2024 · This notion lies at the heart of what the late British physicist Peter Higgs, namesake of the Higgs field, and his competitors pointed out in the 1960s: that one field can stiffen other …
What Is Quantum Teleportation? - Quanta Magazine
Mar 14, 2024 · Teleporting people through space is still science fiction. But quantum teleportation is dramatically different and entirely real. In this episode, Janna Levin interviews the theoretical …
Physics News, Interviews and Columns | Quanta Magazine
Jan 10, 2025 · Quanta’s award-winning coverage of astrophysics, cosmology, quantum physics, geophysics, condensed matter, statistical mechanics, chaos theory, climate science and more.
How Earth’s Climate Changes Naturally (and Why Things Are …
Jul 21, 2020 · Faint Young Sun. Magnitude: No net temperature effect. Time frame: Constant. Though the sun’s brightness fluctuates on shorter timescales, it brightens overall by 0.009% …
New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth
Dec 20, 2023 · Earth’s fate rests on a coin flip. In 5 billion years, our sun will balloon into a red giant star. Whether Earth survives is an “open question,” said Melinda Soares-Furtado, an …
A Mathematician’s Guided Tour Through High Dimensions
Sep 13, 2021 · This all adds up to an intuitive understanding that an abstract space is n-dimensional if there are n degrees of freedom within it (as those birds had), or if it requires n …
Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.
May 24, 2023 · Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Those aren’t just lyrics from the Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody.” They’re also the questions that the brain must constantly answer …
High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last
Sep 21, 2022 · The research advances the perennial ambition of the field: to take cuprate superconductivity and strengthen its underlying mechanism, in order to design world-changing …
Why Euler’s Number Is Just the Best | Quanta Magazine
Nov 24, 2021 · Last month, we presented three puzzles that seemed ordinary enough but contained a numerical twist. Hidden below the surface was the mysterious transcendental …
A New Map of All the Particles and Forces | Quanta Magazine
Oct 22, 2020 · This approach doesn’t offer insight into the relationships between the particles. The force-carrying particles (namely the photon, which conveys the electromagnetic force; the W …