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Stanley Deser

[short_description] Physics seems to have no very old top-tier contributors. The field’s greatest giants have either died young, stopped meaningful work well before they died, or changed fields mid-career.

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In Memoriam: Myriam Sarachik

Tony Liss & Parameswaran Nair

[short_description] Myriam Sarachik passed away on October 7, 2021. Her work on the Kondo effect, the metal-insulator transition, and quantum tunneling in molecular magnets are highlights in her research career.

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A Christmas Chrestomathy

The Editors

[short_description] As the year draws to a close, we are delighted to present our second annual Christmas Chrestomathy, highlighting the essays that best represent our aims, ambitions, attitudes, and even our animadversions.

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Quanta of the Third Kind

Frank Wilczek

[short_description] Theoretical insights and recent experimental results in anyon physics are leading physicists to revise and expand their ideas about what quantum-mechanical particles are and how they behave.

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A Physicist’s Journey

Robert Socolow

[short_description] Physicists skeptical about climate science are an anomaly in the scientific community. In his recent book, Lawrence Krauss seeks to bridge the chasm between physics and climate science.

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Muons and New Physics

Eduardo de Rafael

[short_description] The muon was unexpected when observed in 1936. “Who ordered that?” Isidor Rabi asked. To this day, the muon still surprises physicists. It points to evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model.

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Interstellar Overdrive

Paul Sutter

[short_description] ‘Oumuamua was the first known interstellar object to visit the solar system. Extraterrestrial tries to make the case for ‘Oumuamua as a lightsail spacecraft created by extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Metallic Hydrogen

Isaac Silvera & Ranga Dias

[short_description] For over eighty years, scientists have been trying to produce metallic hydrogen. In that process, diamond anvils must withstand pressures greater than those at the center of the earth—no mean feat.

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In Memoriam: Steven Weinberg

Sheldon Lee Glashow

[short_description] For seventy-four of their eighty-eight years, Sheldon Lee Glashow and the late Steven Weinberg knew each other. Their high-school friendship eventually led to a shared Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Secrets

Jeremy Bernstein

[short_description] Alex Wellerstein’s fascinating new book, Restricted Data, confirms what Jeremy Bernstein has long believed to be true: the information needed to make a nuclear weapon has been in circulation for a long time.

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Complexity Far from Equilibrium

Michael Engel

[short_description] Life is a sophisticated example of dynamic self-assembly, which occurs far from equilibrium. Can researchers harness this phenomenon to purposefully create and control more diversely complex behavior?

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The Dark Matter Enigma

Jean-Pierre Luminet

[short_description] Unveiling the nature of dark matter is one of the biggest challenges in astrophysics. Jean-Pierre Luminet confronts the many unresolved questions that obscure this perplexing aspect of our universe.

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