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Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new method for creating quantum states by twisting materials at the M-point, revealing exotic phenomena previously out of reach. This new direction ...

Since its development 100 years ago, quantum mechanics has revolutionized our understanding of nature, revealing a bizarre ...

A team of scientists from Canadian particle accelerator center TRIUMF and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics ...

A new silicon material switches from insulator to metal in picoseconds. This breakthrough could speed up future computers.

Caltech scientists have found a fast and efficient way to add up large numbers of Feynman diagrams, the simple drawings ...

While comparing neurons and transistors is a convenient metaphor (and not completely out of left field), the brain is ...

Caltech scientists have found a fast and efficient way to add up large numbers of Feynman diagrams, the simple drawings physicists use to represent ...

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At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...