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Sophia Chen

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

All That And ...

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

Mar 26, 2020 9:00 AM

Playing the Odds

Two Physicists Bet Over a Quantum Computing Moon Shot

Mar 9, 2020 8:00 AM

Visible Figures

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

Feb 28, 2020 8:00 AM

Gotcha!

Physicists Take Their Closest Look Yet at an Antimatter Atom

Feb 19, 2020 11:00 AM

Dress to Kill

This Cloth Destroys Deadly Nerve Agents in Minutes

Feb 4, 2020 8:00 AM

quantum quietude

A Tiny Glass Bead Goes as Still as Nature Allows

Jan 30, 2020 2:00 PM

gravity

How the Extreme Art of Dropping Stuff Could Upend Physics

Jan 2, 2020 2:43 PM

flip flop

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

Dec 12, 2019 3:16 PM

water, logged

Scientists Spot an Undersea Fault Using Fiber-Optic Cables

Nov 28, 2019 2:00 PM

stress test

What Makes an Element? The Frankenstein of Sodium Holds Clues

Nov 22, 2019 8:00 AM

quantum scale

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

Nov 8, 2019 7:00 AM

cosmology

The Physics Nobel Goes to the Big Bang and Exoplanets

Oct 8, 2019 9:20 AM

computing

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

Sep 26, 2019 8:00 AM

Even Huge Molecules Follow the Quantum World's Bizarre Rules

Sep 23, 2019 11:02 AM

identity crisis

Sean Carroll Thinks We All Exist on Multiple Worlds

Sep 10, 2019 8:00 AM

holy water

Unusual Fluids Flip, Twirl, and Redefine How Liquids Work

Sep 9, 2019 8:00 AM

Quantum Scale

Scientists Watch Atoms Fall to See Earth's Changing Structure

Sep 3, 2019 8:00 AM

Sunstruck

Physicists Made a Hot Plasma Doughnut to Study Solar Wind

Jul 29, 2019 11:12 AM

Give Me Options

Why Big Banks Could Soon Jump on the Quantum Bandwagon

Jul 26, 2019 12:24 PM

Dark Crystals

New Analysis Techniques Unearth a Trove of Unusual Minerals

Jul 1, 2019 8:00 AM