He developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System and made foundational discoveries that ...

The potential collapse of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization plays a surprisingly pivotal role in this fitfully diverting ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

The curious minds at Aperture show how Einstein’s theory of relativity reshaped how we think about time, space, and gravity.

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Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have achieved exciting progress in quantum metrology, a field ...

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

A phonon-based theoretical framework for liquids marks a major step toward a universal equation of state with broad implications across physics, chemistry and engineering ...

The slower growth of gravitational wells and the accelerating expansion might share the same underlying cause.” In so many ...

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Death is a private matter and if there is no harm to others, the state and other people have no right to interfere (a libertarian argument) Practical arguments It is possible to regulate euthanasia ...

Condensed-matter physics is the study of substances in their solid state. This includes the investigation of both crystalline solids in which the atoms are positioned on a repeating three ...