A technique from the newest generation of quantum sensors is helping scientists to use the limitations of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to their advantage.
Evelyn Lamb
Even world-famous theorist Juan Maldacena wasn’t sure at first whether he should pursue a Ph.D. in physics.
The ADMX experiment trains scientists to deal with real signals—by creating fake ones.
When the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope high in the Chilean Andes becomes fully operational in 2022, its 3.2-gigapixel camera will collect the same amount of data — every night. And it will do so over and over again for ten years. The sky survey will collect so much data that data scientists needed to figure out new ways for astronomers to access it.
A Swedish university tapped the founding director of CERN’s artist-in-residence program to curate a new art exhibit inspired by physics. The pieces are not literal translations of physics concepts to other media or illustrations of physics principles or phenomena. Physics was a spark for the artists, sometimes very clearly and sometimes more tangentially.
To keep up with an impending astronomical increase in data about our universe, astrophysicists turn to machine learning.
Breakthroughs in physics sometimes require an assist from the field of mathematics — and vice versa.