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Living cells cool much slower than our current understanding of heat conduction can explain, according to new research from the University of Tokyo. Researchers have used two techniques—high-speed ...

A new Physical Review Letters study places constraints on the ER = EPR conjecture, showing that under the authors' ...

Atomic-scale MoOCl2 bends light with record strength, enabling ultrathin optics for smart contact lenses, AR glasses, and invisible wearables.

Lodha Foundation launched the Lodha Theoretical Physics Institute in Mumbai on Wednesday, calling it India’s first privately ...

The aurora phenomenon is one of the most breathtaking natural displays on Earth. This article explores the science behind the ...

(Philipp Tur/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Right on the brink of black hole formation, spacetime can get downright peculiar. This ...

One reason to test ever larger Schrödinger’s kittens is they might show us that quantum mechanics itself breaks down before ...

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