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Quantum effects are no longer confined to ultra-cold chips and vacuum chambers. For the first time, researchers have ...

A simple explanation of dark matter and antimatter, how they differ, how scientists study them, and why both are important to understanding the universe.

Time feels like the most familiar thing in the world, yet it hides one of physics’ hardest questions: why do we only remember ...

Abundance, a book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, argues that many of America's most damaging crises are the result of ...

This year has been a challenging one for many of us. But as we wrote before it began, the human condition tends toward hope.

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily life, doing work on something over and over usually makes it warmer. You ...