Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

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In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore ...

Amid the chaotic chains of events that ensue when protons smash together at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, one particle has popped up that appears to go to pieces in a peculiar way. All eyes are ...

A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the standard picture of how particles move.

John Clauser, Anton Zeilinger and Alain Aspect have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments with entangled particles.

A particle’s straight-line path through space can be understood as the sum of all its possible paths.