For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to be folded neatly into the quantum rules that govern the rest of nature. Now a convergence of bold ...

Daily scans taken during prostate cancer radiotherapy could be repurposed to guide changes to treatment, reducing the risk of ...

The search for the biblical Star of Bethlehem has long hovered between faith and astronomy, but a new claim from a NASA comet ...

Olalla, from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Seville, has described the direct link between ...

A researcher at the Department of Physics at Tohoku University has uncovered a surprising quantum phenomenon hidden inside ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

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A laser is usually constructed from two basic elements: a material that provides optical gain through stimulated emission and an optical cavity that partially traps the light. When the total gain in ...

During this time, advancing optical technology repeatedly opened new sub-fields of atomic, molecular and solid-state science, most notably real-time chemistry 4. It also became possible to do ...

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

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