For more than a century, condensed matter physics has grappled with one of its greatest unsolved challenges: how to build ...

Physics departments chairs around the country have expressed feelings of demoralization, decreased productivity, and a reduced capacity for graduate students as a result of policy changes. These ...

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Researchers have succeeded in measuring how energy dissipates in quantum dots by quantifying the entropy they produce. The work, by a team at Stanford University in the US, could help in the ...

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Not all mattering takes the same form, though, and Rebecca Goldstein’s most useful and interesting conceit is her ...

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

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Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has gone extremely cold. Not cold in the way of a walk-in freezer, or a liquid nitrogen tank, or ...

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