The quantum source of space-time: Many physicists believe that entanglement is the essence of quantum weirdness — and some now suspect that it may also be the essence of space-time geometry.
Here’s my feature story in the March 29 Science on decade of the monster—new ways of studying the supermassive black hole that lurks at the center of our galaxy. Plus, here’s an interview with me about the story.
Many people love an old recording, but few take their love as far as Patrick Feaster. In my Science article Archaeologist of Sound (pdf), which earned the Acoustical Society of America’s Science Writing Award for 2011-2013, Feaster’s work as a sound historian understanding and restoring the earliest known recordings is explored.
The Echoes of Hearts Long Silenced
An artist and a historian used digital processing techniques to hear again to the pulses of people who have been dead for more than a century.
How Einstein Became the First Science Superstar
A century ago, astronomers proved the general theory of relativity — and made him a global household name.
A gas cloud that has been hurtling toward the center of the Milky Way is expected to collide with a black hole, an exciting experience for astronomers.
Restored Edison Records Feature Bismarck and the 1800s
You haven’t heard it all until you’ve heard Bismarck and others from the 1800s.
Amino Acid Rock Music Helps Build New Proteins
Some scientists teach computers to “see” proteins. Markus Buehler is teaching them to hear the compounds instead
My blog post in Scientific American on politics and Einstein’s eclipse, relevant today, based on my book Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
The ear is quicker than the eye: making discoveries by turning visual data into audio (pdf)
Read my Scientific American article about the discoveries made when scientists turn data into sound.
The New Horizons mission captivated the world as it flew by Pluto. Here are some of the people who made that possible.
One-man band: the solo physicist who models black holes in sound
Working alone, Jeff Steinhauer has created a sonic analogue of Hawking radiation.
Reactor data hint at existence of fourth neutrino
A nuclear reactor experiment in China is providing new hints that a fourth type of neutrino, one more than the standard model of physics allows, may exist.
Should You Get Your Genome Mapped?
Genome mapping opens a brave new world in medicine.
Recent research points to the possibility that our Solar System started with a now-missing fifth planet. This is the subject of my Nature article Did the Solar System start with an extra planet?:
Exoplanets: First Baby Pictures Unveiled
New observations of stars hundreds of light-years from Earth reveal evidence of planets still surrounded by disks of the primordial materials they grow from.
Physicists twist water into knots
3-D-printed vortex maker may improve understanding of braided fluids in nature.
Photonic device simulates gravitational lensing predicted by Einstein’s general relativity.
How to see quantum gravity in Big Bang traces
Gravitons could be detectable in the cosmic microwave background.
Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram – Nature
A ten-dimensional theory of gravity makes the same predictions as standard quantum physics in fewer dimensions.
Stealth camera takes pictures virtually in the dark
Computing technique reconstructs 3D images from single photons reflected from dimly lit object.
Can information ever be rescued from inside a black hole?
How the science of acoustics helped end World War I
During the 1908 presidential race, Taft and Bryan sounded off in a new way as use of the phonograph got serious.
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Ron Cowen / Science Writer 