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Italian Conceptual artist and theorist Franco Vaccari, whose participatory photographic works presaged the logics of social media and helped photography gain recognition as an art form, died on December 12.
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News Desk, Artforum, 18 Dec. 2025
Scientists have spotted formations that challenge our understanding of physics, and theorists have dreamed up megastructures that could power entire civilizations.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
In the 1980s, string theorists wanted to count the number of curves on high-dimensional manifolds to answer questions about how the building blocks of the universe might behave.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 12 Dec. 2025
The discovery is part of the Dutch national QuMat program, which focuses on designing next-generation quantum materials through tight collaboration between experimentalists and theorists.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
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News Desk, Artforum, 18 Dec. 2025
Scientists have spotted formations that challenge our understanding of physics, and theorists have dreamed up megastructures that could power entire civilizations.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
In the 1980s, string theorists wanted to count the number of curves on high-dimensional manifolds to answer questions about how the building blocks of the universe might behave.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 12 Dec. 2025
The discovery is part of the Dutch national QuMat program, which focuses on designing next-generation quantum materials through tight collaboration between experimentalists and theorists.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
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“Theorist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theorist. Accessed 25 Dec. 2025.
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theorist
noun
the·o·rist
ˈthē-ə-rəst 
ˈthi(-ə)r-əst
: a person who theorizes
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