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A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic ...

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A team of physicists say they have found a way to sidestep Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, one of the more troublesome ...

Peter Millington is a Senior Research Fellow in the Particle Theory Group at the University of Manchester, UK, where he holds a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship and a Royal Society ...

String theory is one of the most ambitious ideas in modern physics, aiming to unite all forces of nature into one framework.

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When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of his previous research on human DNA to conceive of the image of a double ...

Thomas Hertog tells us how he collaborated with Stephen Hawking on his final theorem — a Darwinian revolution in physics that explains the origin of time. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction. Dr. Melvin ...