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Extreme Machines: What Science Needs from Computers

Jul 19, 2009

Computers are the workhorses of science. Without their power to crunch numbers, control instruments, turn raw data into intelligible patterns or pictures and test theories with simulations, most of what we now know about ourselves and the universe might still be a mystery. But is computing technology as we know it reaching its limits?

10-Dimensional Man

Jul 13, 2009

Theoretical physics has a beauty particularly appreciated by those highly adept in mathematics. One of those who does grasp the beauty and wonder of the quantum world -- and seeks to explain it to the rest of us -- is Hirosi Ooguri, the Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Ooguri is a theorist whose work bridges the disciplines of quantum physics and pure math.

Frontiers in Theoretical Physics

May 1, 2009

Physics now requires a new set of categories to describe the contents of the cosmos. Science and technology alike are waiting for the mystifying world of quantum phenomena to be controlled and put to use. And long-term progress demands that the two hugely successful but basically incompatible theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics must be reconciled and unified.

Everything is Physics

Aug 20, 2007

Physicists like to say that, if you look deeply into any branch of science, you’ll find physics at its core. Not every chemist, biologist or psychologist may agree with that notion, but the physicists do have a point: they study matter at its most basic, and the physical sciences ultimately are trying to explain how matter works, whether in black holes or brain cells.