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Order from disorder: a new law of physics?
A new book review in Nature raises a question that sounds almost heretical: do we need to add a law to physics
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Dark matter detector records strange signal scientists can't explain
A detector buried nearly a mile underground in the United States has picked up a single particle interaction t
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Billion-dollar fusion machine targets record and weapons science
A single machine in the United States is being built to do two seemingly opposite jobs: set a world record in
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Hidden Electronic State Forms in 30 Femtoseconds, Japan Team Finds
In Japan, scientists have clocked the birth of a hidden electronic state inside a material at an astonishing 3
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Black Hole Spin Measured by High-Speed Star
A star whipping around a black hole at breakneck speed may finally allow astronomers to measure the black hole
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Ghostly Glow Detected From Shut-Down Nuclear Reactor
Even after a nuclear reactor is switched off, it keeps whispering. For the first time, scientists have detecte
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Physicists Capture First Direct Evidence of a Floquet Topological State
For the first time, physicists have directly observed a Floquet topological state, a strange quantum phase of
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China switches on powerful atom smasher to probe matter's deepest secrets
China has switched on a powerful new particle accelerator that can smash atoms apart to reveal their innermost
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AI cracks the code behind water's strangest behavior
Water expands when it freezes, a quirk that makes it an outlier among liquids. Now scientists in Japan have us
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Tiny magnetic waves could lead to penny-sized quantum computers
A team of physicists in Austria has turned fleeting magnetic waves into long-lasting carriers of quantum infor
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World's First Nuclear Clocks Tick Past Atomic Timekeepers
For decades, atomic clocks have been the gold standard for measuring time. Now two independent research teams
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Scientists crack the mystery of how ice actually forms
For decades, the leading theories describing how ice crystals grow in supercooled water have been wildly inacc
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China builds world's first superfast quantum memory chip
A team of Chinese scientists has built the world's first superfast quantum memory chip, a device that stores q
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Feynman's Restaurant Riddle Confirmed by 2,520 Diners
Physicist Richard Feynman solved a nagging restaurant problem with napkin math 50 years ago. Now a study with
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Feynman’s hidden formula for picking a holiday restaurant
The physicist Richard Feynman had a secret trick for never eating a bad meal on holiday. It was not a hunch or
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Chinese scientists simulate a possible end of the universe
A team of researchers in China used a quantum computer to simulate one possible way the universe could end. Th
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Tiny Metal Lump Exists in Two Places at Once in Quantum First
A tiny lump of metal just pulled off a trick that defies everyday logic: it existed in two places at the same
