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In CERN’s high-temperature superconducting laboratory near Geneva, a wiring machine combines dozens of strands of niobium–tin ...

Decades of weird experimental results appeared to support the existence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that ...

Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online ...

In theory, a universe can come in any shape or size, but scientists prefer to think about three basic kinds of universes: one that’s expanding, one that’s collapsing, and one that stays the same. Out ...

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. The math of data structures helps us understand how ...

Amanda Gefter is a writer specializing in fundamental physics and cosmology and author of the book Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn (Bantam, January 2014).

Hundreds of physicists (and a few journalists) journeyed to Helgoland, the birthplace of quantum mechanics, and grappled with what they have and haven’t learned about reality.

Decades of weird experimental results appeared to support the existence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that would solve multiple mysteries. But recent experiments have killed hope of ...

Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and debated the meaning of quantum mechanics. The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum ...