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Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?
Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong ...
From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...
In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...
Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...
An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...
Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...
Researchers demonstrate that by shaping the spatial and temporal structure of photons, they can engineer customized quantum ...