Articles by

Sophia Chen

The Chemical Menace Inside Glaciers and Icebergs

Inscribed in any chunk of Antarctic snow, Crispin Halsall will tell you, is a story about how...

The Secret Lives of Neutron Stars

It’s a lot of detail about two faraway objects, especially if you consider the astrophysicists only directly...

Antihelium Offers Hope in the Search for Dark Matter

In 2010, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider began producing an exotic form of antimatter known as antihelium. Antimatter...

‘Solar Twins’ Reveal the Consistency of the Universe

Sometimes we must look to the heavens to understand our own planet. In the 17th century, Johannes...

How to Use a Super-Intense Laser to Kick an Electron out of a Molecule

For all its possibilities, nature tends to replay one particular scene over and over again: the confrontation...

A Reboot of the Maxwell’s Demon Thought Experiment—in Real Life

In addition, the second law of thermodynamics signifies the statistical nature of the universe. Its building blocks...