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The contentious genius who made black holes real

The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius Patchen Barss Basic (2024) In the early days of a book project that would span six years, writer Patchen Barss had the best stroke of luck a biographer can hope for. His subject, the Nobel prizewinning mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, brought him a bundle of […]

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Physicists tame fundamental muon particles into highly controlled beam for first time

A worker at the Neutrino Experimental Facility at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) in Tokai.Credit: Dai Kurokawa/EPA/Shutterstock For the first time, researchers have accelerated muons — the heavier, unstable cousins of electrons — into a tightly controlled beam, bringing the vision of a muon collider a step closer to reality. A team at […]

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