Author: Matthew R. Francis
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Some light reading about light
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] As I mentioned before, I’m branching out a bit and writing some listicles for Symmetry Magazine this year. The first covered gravity, and the second covers… light! Eight things…
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Some heavy facts about gravity
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] I’m not generally the type of writer who makes listicles, but I’m producing a few for Symmetry Magazine this year. The first covers the OG of fundamental forces: gravity!…
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A new detector in the hunt for particles and the origin of matter
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Belle II and the matter of antimatter Go inside the new detector looking for why we’re here For Symmetry Magazine: We live in a world full of matter: stars…
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BICEP3: Revenge of the telescope
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Dusting for the fingerprint of inflation with BICEP3 A new experiment at the South Pole picks up where BICEP2 left off For Symmetry Magazine: When researchers with the BICEP2…
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A net for neutrinos at the bottom of the sea
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Casting a net for neutrinos The KM3NeT experiment will catch the elusive particles using the Mediterranean Sea For Symmetry Magazine: Like ordinary telescopes, KM3NeT operates in darkness—but there the…
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A discovery that made a thousand scientists burst into cheers and tears
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] It’s not every day that we get to usher in an entirely new branch of astronomy. Yesterday, members of the LIGO collaboration announced the first direct detection of gravitational…
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Why are neutrino masses so tiny?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Neutrinos on a seesaw A possible explanation for the lightness of neutrinos could help answer some big questions about the universe. For Symmetry Magazine: Mass is a fundamental property…
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Could gravity have mass?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Might gravity have mass? From Physics World: When confronted with something unexplained in the data, scientists face several possibilities. Maybe there’s an error and the result is spurious. Maybe…
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Nuclear pasta and neutron stars
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] The Inside of a Neutron Star Looks Spookily Familiar Exotic ultra-compressed matter can look like pasta, among other things For Nautilus: Hot fluids of neutrons that flow without friction,…
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Don’t pull up stakes for the asteroid-mining gold rush
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Is Space Becoming a Gold Mine? A new law grants private companies ownership over the materials they extract from asteroids or the Moon. But don’t call it a gold…
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