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Kellogg Stelle was a professor of physics at Imperial College London for decades until his death last month. In 1977, he developed a particle theory of gravity that’s renormalizable, but the theory’s ...

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Scientists in Greece have laid out a mathematical framework to help explain a so-far-unsolved gap in our understanding of how ...

When an intense laser pulse hits an electron at rest, the latter performs a quiver motion with the frequency of the light ...

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The U.S. Department of Energy 's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) celebrated a significant milestone in the ...

Magazine explores the wild theory that Satoshi Nakamoto was a time-traveling AI sent back to build the perfect, unstoppable ...