The ability to precisely study and manipulate electrons in electron microscopes could open new possibilities for the ...

A tool called AI-Newton can derive scientific laws from raw data, but is some way from developing human-like reasoning.

Physics is often about recognizing patterns, sometimes repeated across vastly different scales. For instance, moons orbit planets in the same way planets orbit stars, which in turn orbit the center of ...

Researchers created scalable quantum circuits capable of simulating fundamental nuclear physics on more than 100 qubits.

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Moroccan rocks suggest that what had been thought to be wild, random movements of continents was actually Earth's magnetic ...

If so, laws might change when the universe itself changes phase. In the early universe, as temperatures and densities shifted, forces split apart from a unified origin. What we call “laws” may be like ...

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