Imagine a juggler tossing balls into the air. The art of juggling is a dance between motion and pause, where the ball’s speed ...

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has shifted from late-night dorm debate to a live question in ...

Researchers have reported new experimental results addressing the origin of rare proton-rich isotopes heavier than iron, ...

At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible. The ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

A round of applause, please: Scientists have finally figured out what’s behind the sound of clapping. The research pinpoints a mechanism called a Helmholtz resonator — the same acoustic concept that ...

What do large crowds of people and water have in common? They both act like fluids. A clear example of the fluid dynamics at play in crowds is the masses at the San Fermín Festival in Pamplona, Spain.

Scientists are urged to reconsider misleading signals in topological physics, addressing the 'smoking gun' problem in ...

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