Articles by

Charlie Wood

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...

How Quantum Physicists ‘Flipped Time’ (and Didn’t)

Physicists have coaxed particles of light into undergoing opposite transformations simultaneously, like a human turning into a...

Why This Universe? Maybe It’s Not Special—Just Probable

Cosmologists have spent decades striving to understand why our universe is so stunningly vanilla. Not only is...

Physicists Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe

“There are some configurations of the future that don’t correspond to anything in the past,” Cotler said....

How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

Most of the quantum fields that fill our universe have one, and only one, preferred state, in...