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Physicists favor sci-fi films like Interstellar and The Prestige, both directed by Christopher Nolan, for their engaging depiction of scientific concepts such as space, time, and teleportation, which inspire and resonate with their understanding of physics.
Physicists in the US have developed a new technique for monitoring "second sound," a peculiar heat wave that occurs in superfluids, which could help model various poorly understood systems. The technique involves imaging heat flow in a strongly interacting Fermi gas composed of ultracold lithium-6 atoms, providing direct measurements of heat transfer and anomalous behavior at critical temperatures. This research has implications for high-temperature superconductors, neutron stars, and other systems, and the new technique is expected to be applied in systems where the whole system is far from equilibrium.
Researchers at CERN's ATLAS Collaboration continue their search for magnetic monopoles, an elusive particle, using the largest general-purpose particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The collaboration, consisting of thousands of scientists and support staff, aims to detect phenomena that have not been observed before, and has previously made significant discoveries such as the Higgs boson.
Physicists John Cardy and Alexander Zamolodchikov, who contributed to the theory of statistical physics and quantum field theory, and immunologists Carl June and Michel Sadelain, who pioneered genetically engineered immune cells for cancer treatment, are among the winners of the 2023 Breakthrough prize. The prize also recognizes a team studying Parkinson's disease genetics and a trio of scientists who identified drugs to repair defective proteins in cystic fibrosis patients. The mathematics prize went to Simon Brendle for his contributions to differential geometry.