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Arttu Rajantie is a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College London, a scientific associate at CERN, and a member ...

Abhishek Banerjee is an experimental physicist investigating the mysterious boundary between the quantum and classical worlds ...

Thorsten Schumm is professor for Quantum Metrology at the TU Wien. His scientific career has led him to Berlin, Innsbruck ...

Jesse Thaler is a theoretical particle physicist who fuses ideas from quantum field theory and machine learning to study the ...

Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called melanosomes, which are ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering to farming – but was beer really more important to us than bread?