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July 1, 2019
Sean Hartnoll’s recent work has aimed to understand the flow of charge and heat in strongly quantum many-body systems without well-defin
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June 3, 2019
Stanford physicist Shamit Kachru is a member of a new collaboration that aims to unravel the mystery of entangled quantum matter — macro
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May 20, 2019
The 2019 Gribov Medal, for outstanding work by a young physicist in Theoretical Particle Physics and/or Field Theory, is awarded to Douglas Stanford…
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May 3, 2019
Walk into Shamit Kachru’s office, and the first things you’ll notice are the couch and th
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April 3, 2019
Our friend, Professor Shoucheng Zhang, passed away on December 1, 2018.
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March 15, 2019
The Simons Foundation congratulates the outstanding mathematicians and theoretical physicists who have been awarded Simons Fellowships in 2019.
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March 7, 2019
A new exhibit at the Cantor Arts Center invites viewers to imagine not just one universe, but many.
A sketch by Xi Dong of the cutting, warping and gluing procedure that he and his colleagues used to construct a hologram of a de Sitter universe.
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February 28, 2019
The fabric of space and time is widely believed by physicists to be emergent, stitched out of quantum threads according to an unknown pattern.
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February 8, 2019
There’s a new farm on the Farm.
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December 6, 2018
Leonard Susskind, a pioneer of string theory, the holographic principle and other big physics ideas spanning the past half-century, h
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November 19, 2018
Sean Hartnoll offers insight on experiments suggesting that exotic superconducting materials share a “strange metal” state characte
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November 5, 2018
Mountain View’s Aron Wall lives and breathes science, pondering fundamental insights about quantum field theory and gravity that have e