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Sophia Chen

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Sophia Chen covers physics, engineering, and data science for WIRED.

How to See the World's Reflection From a Bag of Chips

Two Physicists Bet Over a Quantum Computing Moon Shot

Katherine Johnson’s Math Will Steer NASA Back to the Moon

Physicists Take Their Closest Look Yet at an Antimatter Atom

This Cloth Destroys Deadly Nerve Agents in Minutes

A Tiny Glass Bead Goes as Still as Nature Allows

How the Extreme Art of Dropping Stuff Could Upend Physics

Revolt! These Scientists Are Sick of Quantum Computing's Hype

Scientists Spot an Undersea Fault Using Fiber-Optic Cables

What Makes an Element? The Frankenstein of Sodium Holds Clues

A Scientist's Tiny Black Hole Brings the Cosmos Into the Lab

The Physics Nobel Goes to the Big Bang and Exoplanets

Why Google's Quantum Victory Is a Huge Deal—and a Letdown

Even Huge Molecules Follow the Quantum World's Bizarre Rules

Sean Carroll Thinks We All Exist on Multiple Worlds

Unusual Fluids Flip, Twirl, and Redefine How Liquids Work

Scientists Watch Atoms Fall to See Earth's Changing Structure

Physicists Made a Hot Plasma Doughnut to Study Solar Wind

Why Big Banks Could Soon Jump on the Quantum Bandwagon

New Analysis Techniques Unearth a Trove of Unusual Minerals