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Matthew Francis

Matthew Francis

Freelance Journalist at Ars Technica

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  • English
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  • Astronomy
  • Science

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Recent Articles

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The quiet search for dark matter deep underground - Ars Technica

From the archives: In which the author travels to South Dakota to visit a gold mine—housing LUX.
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“Life, uh, finds a way”—Applying lessons from evolution to go to Ma...

Biomimicry looks to living organisms to create the future of sustainable engineering.
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Glueballs are the missing frontier of the Standard Model - Ars Tech...

There should be particles made entirely of gluons, but we don’t know how to find them.
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Signs of neutrinos from the dawn of time, less than a second after ...

First unambiguous observation of the cosmic neutrino background.
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What killed the white dwarfs? (Aside from the giant explosion) - Ar...

Merger or extra matter? Two papers come to opposite conclusions.
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A gentle nudge with a nuke: Deflecting Earth-bound asteroids - Ars ...

Armageddon is a bad model for saving Earth, but nukes might still be useful.
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Exploring the monstrous creatures at the edges of the dark matter m...

What if the most popular hypothesis is wrong? Plenty of fringier theories exist.
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Dark matter makes up 80% of the Universe—but where is it all? - Ars...

We know dark matter exists, but new research aims to pinpoint its exact location.
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Super-bright supernova might not be so unusual after all - Ars Tech...

Gravitational lensing may have made a white dwarf supernova 30 times too bright.
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Gravitational lensing lets researchers size up a white dwarf - Ars ...

Similar systems are forerunners to supernovae.
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A sort of particle-free supersymmetry found in exotic materials - A...

Behavior of electrons in topological superconductors emulates supersymmetry.
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Is the lopsided Universe telling us we need new theories?

A perplexing asymmetry in relic radiation may point to new physics.
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6-billion-year-old quasar spinning nearly as fast as physically pos...

Gravitational magnification allowed measurement of black hole spin.
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Is entanglement real or is there a super-deterministic cosmic consp...

Researchers use quasars to kill off the last of the quantum hidden variables.
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Lumps in a supernova reveal nature of explosion—and a mystery - Ars...

Titanium obeys theory, iron and nickel are rebels.
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Bose-Einstein condensates used to emulate exotic magnetic monopole

The best way to simulate them is by using ultracold atoms.
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The dirty secret behind ball lightning is dirt - Ars Technica

First spectrum of ball lightning shows it shares chemistry with soil.
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After bright explosion, astronomers rush to study new supernova - A...

Was spotted at 3:47am EST this morning.
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Quasar illuminates a cosmic filament—and a mystery - Ars Technica

Filament is just like we’d predicted, except for a bad case of gas.
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Direct measurements of the wave nature of matter - Ars Technica

New experimental techniques map out wave properties only known previously from theory.
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Polarized light reveals hidden jets of a gamma-ray burst - Ars Tech...

Astronomers monitored rapid changes in light emission to reveal hidden structure.