When Aaron Leanhardt was a graduate student in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was part of a research team that cooled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded in ...

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Jeffrey Grossman has a lot of strong opinions about coffee. But the thing he hates most is when people microwave it. “My dad nukes his coffee all day,” Grossman says. “And I’ve always told him, ...

Physicists have struggled to understand the nature of time since the field began. But a new theoretical study suggests time could be an illusion woven at the quantum level. When you purchase through ...

Black holes can’t be formed from pure light. Quantum physics would curb their creation under any foreseeable conditions, a new study suggests. Typically, matter is responsible for black holes. They’re ...

We all know that water evaporates when the temperature climbs, but researchers have just shown that there's another factor at play. The breakthrough could solve long-standing atmospheric mysteries and ...

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Using evidence-based approaches to improve the teaching of physics can help students achieve more and improve equity. In this Focus Issue, we survey the current state of this research field. Women and ...

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MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has unveiled an innovative AI model that merges principles of diffusion and Poisson Flow. According to MIT News, the researchers ...