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  • View of the doughnut-shaped plasma vessel of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany
    View of the doughnut-shaped plasma vessel of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany
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    Is the Age of Fusion Upon Us?

    Economically viable fusion energy will be one of the greatest boons in human history, but it remains frustratingly elusive

    byKhaled Talaat
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    The Ontology of Pop Physics

    A slew of popularizing science books delve into the basic mismatch between being and human being

    byAdam Kirsch
  • left to right: Ruth Mendel; Hertha and Bruno Mendel's wedding, 1898; Toni Mendel (center); Bruno Mendel (with pipe), the author, Hertha Mendel, Canada, 1943; Hertha Mendel, 1943.
    left to right: Ruth Mendel; Hertha and Bruno Mendel's wedding, 1898; Toni Mendel (center); Bruno Mendel (with pipe), the author, Hertha Mendel, Canada, 1943; Hertha Mendel, 1943.
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    Einstein, Toni, and Me

    How I came to know one of the scientist’s love interests from the early days of the Weimar Republic

    byJosef Eisinger
  • FICTION
    Planetary Science

    Tablet Original Fiction: a scientist chases a meteorite, and finds a message from God

    byEmily Adelsohn Corngold
  • Abraham Yahuda.(Collage Tablet Magazine; original images Schwadron Portrait Gallery, the National Library of Israel, and Wikimedia Commons)
    Abraham Yahuda.(Collage Tablet Magazine; original images Schwadron Portrait Gallery, the National Library of Israel, and Wikimedia Commons)
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    Saving Isaac Newton: How a Jewish Collector Brought the Physicist’s Papers to America

    An excerpt from ‘The Newton Papers’ reveals the scientist’s long-hidden, anti-rationalist, heretical obsession with alchemy

    bySarah Dry
  • British physicist Peter Higgs (right) speaks with Belgium physicist Francois Englert.(Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
    British physicist Peter Higgs (right) speaks with Belgium physicist Francois Englert.(Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Holocaust Survivor Francois Englert Wins Nobel

    Shares physics prize with Peter Higgs for the pair’s Higgs particle discovery

    byStephanie Butnick
  • Event recorded with the CMS detector in 2012, showing characteristics expected from the decay of the SM Higgs boson to a pair of Z bosons.
    Event recorded with the CMS detector in 2012, showing characteristics expected from the decay of the SM Higgs boson to a pair of Z bosons.
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    Encounters With the God Particle: The Higgs Boson Meets Organized Religion

    The Higgs boson, the pope, and the curious interaction between organized religion and big science

    byPaul Fishbane
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    Politicizing Einstein

    Today on Tablet

    byThe Editors
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