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A new kind of symmetry shakes up physics

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A 50-year quest: My personal journey with the second law of thermodynamics

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The Mathematical Center of the Universe (2021)

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Gödel's solution to Einstein's field equations (2021)

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Sabine Hossenfelder: There are areas where physics blurs into religion

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How to become a good theoretical physicist

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My black body story (it's physics)

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What is quantum field theory and why is it incomplete?

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Roboticists discover alternative physics

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Fields Medals 2022

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The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Explanatory Reporting

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David Deutsch’s Constructor Theory

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A 9-line summary of textbook physics

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The Theoretical Minimum (2013)

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Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

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Steven Weinberg has died

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection

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Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)

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Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (2007)

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The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978)

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Isaac Newton’s attempts to unlock secret code of pyramids

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Imperial mathematician scoops $3M Breakthrough Prize

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Physics is stuck

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How to become a good theoretical physicist

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The event that eventually led to Newton writing and publishing the Principia

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A Short History of Color Theory

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Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

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Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years

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Why introductory chemistry is boring: a long-term historical perspective

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The crisis in physics is not only about physics

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Physics worth more to EU economy than retail and financial services, says study

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String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet

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Mitchell Feigenbaum, physicist who pioneered chaos theory, has died

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A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers

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CERN cuts ties with 'sexist' scientist Alessandro Strumia

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Student cracks theologian's baffling religious code

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Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

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2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize Winners

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The Theory of Interstellar Trade

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How the belief in beauty has triggered a crisis in physics

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Stephen Hawking's Final Paper Cuts the Multiverse Down to Size

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Peer review: the end of an error?

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Two weeks before death, Hawking submitted a paper on parallel universes

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How 4000 Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino Its Worst Week (2015)

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Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem (2015)

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The conceptual origins of Maxwell's equations and gauge theory (2014) [pdf]

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The Fields Medal should return to its roots

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Visual tour of classical electromagnetism

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Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online

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How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist

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The Dangerous Irrelevance of String Theory

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The Theoretical Minimum

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Uncertain Propulsion Breakthroughs?

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The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978)

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A Natural Law for Rotating Galaxies: What Does This Mean for Dark Matter?

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The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

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When Einstein Tilted at Windmills

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Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong?

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A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook

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Feynman’s Derivation of the Schrödinger Equation

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How to Become a Good Theoretical Physicist

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Einstein’s First Proof

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Einstein was no lone genius

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Emmy Noether changed the course of physics

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Steven Weinberg: Science books for the general reader

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Physics in 100 Years

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Oliver Heaviside

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Kip Thorne: The science of Interstellar

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Quantum Gravity Expert Says "Philosophical Superficiality" Has Harmed Physics

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Cloudy With a Chance of War

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How to become a Good Theoretical Physicist

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LHC Physics Center bans Powerpoint, switches to whiteboard-only forums

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Physics: What We Do and Don’t Know

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How Did Einstein Think?

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Modern Physics From Scratch

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Quantum physics made relatively simple: Three lectures by Hans Bethe

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Stephen Hawking on time travel, M-theory, and extra terrestrial life

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Every Black Hole Contains a New Universe

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Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket

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Drinking from an open container in microgravity (video)

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Isaac Newton’s Personal Notebooks Go Digital

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Publicly funded science should be open science

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Flipping 10 heads in a row - a small probability demonstration

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Einstein for Everyone

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Urban Decay: Exploring an old abandoned particle collider facility

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Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations

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2010 Physics Nobel Prize (Graphene)

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Foundations (1997-2000)

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Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

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Permutation City (1994)

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The Ultraviolet Myth

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20 Years of "Not Even Wrong"

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Scandal at America's top science fair

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Lord Kelvin and his analog computer

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An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (2020)

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Göttingen was one of the most productive centers of mathematics (2019)

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Einstein's Other Theory of Everything

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