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Did two physicists just upend decades of cosmology research? A new study claims that the universe isn’t entirely the same no ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why it matters.

Over the past decade, Professor L. Mahadevan's Soft Math Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has helped establish how the ancient Japanese paper arts ...

A pixel either controls or analyzes, but not at the same time. Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, however, managed ...

In a new theoretical study, physicists at the University of Oslo modeled a single photon meeting an ultrafast optical shutter ...

With this gift, Princeton will become the ninth member of the Leinweber network for theoretical physics, which is focused on ...

A new theory suggests the universe is constantly recording its own history in the fabric of spacetime. If correct, this ...

Stephen Lankenau has spent years studying how people use cannabis in everyday life. As director of Drexel University’s ...

Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can.