Nordita News Feature - The Comeback of Massive Gravity
Massive gravity, a modification of general relativity in which gravitons have mass, has an interesting history. Massive gravity was long believed to be internally inconsistent, but physicists at...
View ArticleNordita News Feature - Big Data Meets the Eye
Remember when a 20kB image took a minute to load? Back then, when dinosaurs were roaming the earth? Data has become big. Today we have more data than ever before, more data in fact than we know how to...
View ArticleNordita News Feature - The Swimming Competition of Enantiomers
The spatial arrangement of some large molecules can exist in two different versions which are mirror images of each other, yet their chemical composition is entirely identical. These mirror versions...
View ArticleNordita News Feature - Towards an understanding of the Sun's Butterfly Diagram
It's hot, round, and you're not supposed to stare at it: The Sun has attracted curiosity since we crawled out of the primordial pond. And even though we now have a pretty good idea of how the Sun does...
View ArticleNordita News Feature - Thin Nematic Films: Liquid Beauty
No, it's not a moon passage in front of an exoplanet. It's a thin nematic film. Let me explain. Image source: arXiv:1010.0832 Between condensed matter physics and chemistry, between solids and...
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