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Two independent lines of evidence from the world’s most powerful particle experiments are converging on the same ...

This breathtaking clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel-Prize winner’s theory about how quantum physics works in your brain.

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Acoustic tweezers use sound waves to create a potential-energy well that can hold an object in place – they are the acoustic ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping to pave a path for the eventual discovery of dark matter. With new approaches to measurement in the quantum realm, ...

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

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Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.