Articles by

Charlie Wood

The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University...

Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.String theory captured the hearts and minds of...

The Mysterious ‘Dark’ Energy That Permeates the Universe Is Slowly Eroding

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Physicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious...

The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Physicists have begun to explore the proton as...

These Rogue Worlds Upend the Theory of How Planets Form

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.When Galileo Galilei, a mathematician at the University...

An Invisible ‘Demon’ Lurks in an Odd Superconductor

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 1956, David Pines formulated a phantom. He...

The JWST Has Spotted Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Years before she was even sure the James...

How These Nobel-Winning Physicists Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.To catch a glimpse of the subatomic world’s...