study of matter and its motion, along with related concepts such as energy and force
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Remembering Stephen Hawking on his 78th birthday: A legacy of humanity
Stephen Hawking passed away on 14 March 2018. His work changed literally everything we know about the cosmos and our place ...
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Cosmology in crisis as evidence suggests our universe isn't flat, it's actually curved
No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word. Observations of the retrograde motion of ...
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[Best of 2019] This quantum physics breakthrough could be the origin story for time travel
An international team of researchers recently placed an entire molecule into a state of quantum superposition. This huge ...
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These new technologies will soon answer our biggest questions about the universe
In 1900, so the story goes, prominent physicist Lord Kelvin addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science ...
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How babies can teach AI to understand classical and quantum physics
A team of researchers from MIT recently tapped the amazing potential of the human brain to develop an AI model that understands ...
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Scientists were wrong, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is not dying
In the last 10 years, but in the last five months in particular, the press has reported dire warnings that the Great Red ...
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A new experiment may help us figure out what 'dark energy' actually is
As an astronomer, there is no better feeling than achieving “first light” with a new instrument or telescope. It is the ...
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Physicist claims men are inherently better suited for a career in physics than women in published paper
The 'Quantitative Science Studies’ journal controversially published a paper that claims men are better suited for a career ...
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New physics research boldly indicates 'warp drives' may be possible
Humans are within years of sending the first crewed mission to Mars. And then what? Maybe another 100 years from now we'll ...
