Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot ...
Mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz discovered how to make an origami torus with the least folding possible. The tent-shaped ...
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A new plasma simulation just cracked how the universe builds its vast magnetic fields out of pure turbulence — knitting tangled magnetic threads across the cosmos
The magnetic fields lacing through galaxy clusters and cosmic filaments have no business being there. The early universe was ...
Quantum physicists have uncovered a bizarre phenomenon in which photons appear to spend a “negative” amount of time ...
A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists’ biggest goals and ...
To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.
A chance meeting during a dip in the ocean was the first step on the road to quantum information science.
A new experiment confirms that photons passing through a cloud of atoms can spend a negative amount of time there, and the ...
A research team at Google co-led by Michael Brenner, Catalyst Professor of Applied Mathematics and Physics at the Harvard ...
With the ease of online publishing, the number of journals has exploded, and with them the number of papers. It has gotten ...
For many undergraduate students, exploring the complexities of physics for the first time, from wading through advanced ...
A flashlight beam cuts straight across a dark room. Light moving through a window doesn’t twist or curve when the glass shakes. Even the spinning Earth doesn’t seem to nudge a beam of light passing ...
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