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When the Status Quo Doesn’t Cut It
Alternatives to the medical or economic state of affairs offer hope—and danger. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our ...
The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong
A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...
New research determines the thermodynamic properties of the quark gluon plasma
Very soon after the Big Bang, the universe enjoyed a brief phase where quarks and gluons roamed freely, not yet joined up ...
The generalization of statistical mechanics makes it possible to regularize the theory of critical phenomena
Statistical mechanics is one of the pillars of modern physics. Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) and Josiah Willard Gibbs ...
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Modeling the Critical and Phase Equilibrium Properties of Pure Fluids and Mixtures with the Crossover Cubic-Plus-Association Equation of State
Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. The cubic-plus-association (CPA) equation of state (EoS) is unable to correctly describe the vapor–liquid ...