physics

A view of a bridge in Zeeland, the Netherlands, April 22, 2021. The Langlands Program can be likened to building bridges across mathematical cultures with different objects and languages.

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‘Strong evidence’ unusual nitrogen-9 nucleus exists, scientists say

Gamma-ray burst in faraway galaxy disturbed Earth's upper atmosphere

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How fractals offer a new way to see the quantum realm

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Jasprit Bumrah bowls during the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup match between India and Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, November 2, 2023.

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How is electricity transmitted? | Explained

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A view of the Rosette Nebula, January 27, 2023.

What does World Thrift Day have to do with physics?

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The gravitational constant

Carbon nanoflorets observed through a microscope.

Tiny carbon ‘flowers’ turn light to heat at unrivalled efficiency, IIT team finds

A general view of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment is seen during a media visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the French village of Saint-Genis-Pouilly near Geneva in Switzerland, July 23, 2014.

This particle’s wobble could help spot cracks in the laws of physics

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What separates classical and quantum chaos?

India’s Jasprit Bumrah celebrates the wicket of Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan during the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 match in Ahmedabad, October 14, 2023.

Bumrah’s ball to Rizwan shows energy conservation law in action

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How quantum algorithms solve problems that classical computers can’t

A schematic diagram showing the four-step cycle of the quantum engine.

New ‘quantum engine’ does work by flipping the identity of atoms

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An attosecond is one quintillionth of a second, or 10^-18 seconds. This is the timescale at which the properties of an electron change. Photo: nobelprize.org/

Attophysics — new tools to fathom the world of electrons | Explained

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The 2023 physics Nobel Prize has been awarded for attosecond physics

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