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How Anyons Help Locate Critical Points
When heated, a magnet can gradually lose its magnetization until it disappears. This is an example of a continuous phase transition: the quantity used to distinguish between two states of matter…
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ArticleThe Electrical State of Micro- and Nanoplastics
Every day, we encounter the electrostatic properties of plastics, often without giving them much thought. Synthetic fabrics cling to one another, dust is readily drawn to plastic surfaces, and in…
ArticleHow Fast Radio Bursts Help Us Explore the Structure of the Universe
A radio burst from a distant galaxy can help us understand the structure of the Universe. How? On its way to Earth, the signal passes through diffuse gas that is difficult to detect through its own…
Article2026’s Potential Super El Niño: What We Know and What We Still Don’t Understand
El Niño, the periodic warming of the tropical Pacific that reshapes weather around the world, may be about to reach a strength never recorded. Only months ago the ocean was in the opposite state: in…
ArticleDid the LZ Experiment Find Dark Matter and Why Is the Answer Far More Complicated Than a Simple “Yes” or “No”?
On September 1, 2026, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration reported an unusual event that its underground detector had recorded on June 16, 2023. The detector is designed to search for WIMPs:…