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

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

Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

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 ...

Jee compared dark matter to crystal-clear water in a pond, with pebbles as the galaxies. “You cannot see the water unless ...

Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC), a remarkable manifestation of quantum mechanics in systems with many particles, has over the past century reshaped our understanding of the fundamental phases of ...