Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

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Scientists at TU Wien found that electrons need specific “doorway states” to escape solids, not just energy. The insight ...

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Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect ...

The team used intense X-rays to confirm a key theoretical concept that explains a material's conductivity crash.

The new research presented in Physical Review Letters explains the complex process that requires not just energy to escape, but also tight maneuvering through a quantum door. Despite its widespread ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Albert Einstein, everyone’s favorite wild-haired genius with a mischievous grin, is more than just a pop culture icon whose legend lives on today. He’s arguably the most influential scientist of the ...

Spin glasses are physical systems in which the small magnetic moments of particles (i.e., spins) interact with each other in ...