A Planck? Planck’s constant like the physics number for something complicated? Nah, that’s not keyboard related. But maybe it ...

For more than a century, a single metal cylinder in a Paris vault quietly defined what a kilogram was. After 130 years, ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...

Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.

One of the biggest problems facing modern microelectronics is that computer chips can no longer be made arbitrarily smaller ...

Physicists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have now been able to show for the first time that there is a kind of precursor for electronically chiral materials. They discovered these ...

Last year, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) released its most detailed map of the universe yet. And with it, ...

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of science's biggest questions—the Hubble tension.

Scientists pushed photons across the universe to test the speed of light—and found Einstein’s cosmic speed limit still holds ...

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