A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...

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What is the nature of dark matter? A new experiment led by Columbia University physics professors aims to find out.

Researchers from the High Energy Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan and ...

A research team has recreated the evolution of the eye in a physics simulation. The results show why nature chose such ...

A research team has discovered a unique quantum state at the interface between organic materials and two-dimensional ...

Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming ...

Faster, more efficient, and more versatile—these are the expectations for the technology that will produce our energy and handle information in the future. But how can these expectations be met? A ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb highlights 3I/ATLAS' baffling sunward jet after a 16° gravitational twist, defying known ...

A university don calls for simplifying the teaching of science and technology, suggesting outdoor and activity-based methods ...

Loureiro studied the behavior of plasma and worked to explain the physics behind astronomical phenomena such as solar flares. His research, according to his obituary on MIT’s news site, “involved the ...

A long-standing physics mystery has been solved with the discovery of emergent photon-like behavior inside a strange quantum ...