In the strange and fascinating world of quantum mechanics, particles have long been sorted into just two types: fermions and ...

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After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his ...

Optical rotatum” is the term researchers coined to describe a newly discovered structure of light. Beams of light that can be ...

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The last decade has brought a new way to explore the universe. Gravitational wave astronomy, made possible by observatories ...

An international team of researchers has developed a new method for parameterizing machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIP) to simulate magnetic materials, making the prediction of their ...

This idea puts a morbid twist on quantum theory, suggesting that a copy of you may remain alive, no matter what.

Pushing the limits of structured light, applied physicists report a new type of optical vortex beam that not only twists as it travels but also changes in different parts at different rates to create ...

Credit: VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Quantum physics is the branch of science that deals with the ... can exist in multiple different states at the same time — until ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...