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Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

Buried deep below the American Midwest, a new kind of observatory is taking shape that aims to watch some of the most elusive particles in the universe as they stream straight through Earth. The Deep ...

Highspeed Internet, autonomous driving, the Internet of Things: data streams are proliferating at enormous speed. But classic ...

From black holes to cancer, Megha Padi tackles some of the most vexing problems in the universe with enthusiasm and robust mathematical tools to back her up. Padi, an assistant professor of molecular ...

A subtle timing flash may expose the Unruh effect. The approach ties ordinary lab tools to deep quantum physics. Researchers ...

This year is yet another doozy for Kerry Condon. Having earned her first Oscar nomination for her role in 2023’s The Banshees of Inisherin, this season, Condon is in contention for not one, but two ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

Funding pressures are a major driver: among graduate physics programs that intentionally planned to enroll fewer students in ...

Because of the way we are taught science, it is tempting to divide the subject up into tight compartments. Physics is about how stuff behaves, while biology explains the living side of nature. (As ...

In a groundbreaking study, UC Santa Cruz researchers have shown that developing brain tissue exhibits spontaneous activity ...