President Donald Trump’s governmentwide push into artificial intelligence took a major step forward yesterday, when the U.S.

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In the first moments after the birth of the universe, there was an unusual state of matter in which quarks and gluons moved ...

Superman was cheated. X-ray vision isn’t where it’s at. If yesterday’s writers of comic books knew what we know today, the Man of Steel would have shot muons from his eyes to see through walls of ...

A new Duke Quantum Center study shows how quantum simulators can help researchers explore particle formation and the ...

Physicists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider on Long Island have seen hints of a phase transition from the early universe ...

IntroductionEvery October, the Nobel Prize attracts significant attention from around the world.When a Japanese person wins, ...

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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for investigations of fundamental particles. Ellen Moons, secretary general of the Royal ...

Three Florida State University theoretical physicists are part of a major national initiative exploring how quantum computing ...

For nearly two centuries, scientists have puzzled over how the Surinam toad manages to be such a deft and fierce hunter despite its tiny eyes, poor vision and the low visibility of its turbid ...

Using a hybrid qubit–oscillator trapped-ion processor, physicists have simulated a Z2 lattice gauge theory and directly ...